Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

Understanding the processes that drive the dramatic changes in biodiversity along the
productivity gradient remains a major challenge. Insight from simple, bivariate relationships …

The maintenance of biodiversity is crucial for ecosystem processes such as plant biomass
production, as higher species richness is associated with increased biomass production in …

Livestock use in semi-arid South African ecosystems has not been extensively studied in
relation to the Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) of carbon dioxide (CO 2). We present four …

Overyielding, the primary metric for assessing biodiversity effects on ecosystem functions, is
often partitioned into “complementarity” and “selection” components, but this reveals nothing …

While it is often assumed that oncogenic processes in metazoans can influence species
interactions, empirical evidence is lacking. Here, we use the cnidarian Hydra oligactis to …

It has long been anticipated that relating functional traits to species demography would be a
cornerstone for achieving large-scale predictability of ecological systems. If such a …

Livestock farmers rely on a high and stable grassland productivity for fodder production to
sustain their livelihoods. Future drought events related to climate change, however, threaten …

The relationship between diversity and productivity (DPR) is a hot topic in ecology, whereas
most evidence comes from studies of manipulated terrestrial ecosystems or from two …

Soil depth may affect plant diversity in two apparently opposing manners: on the one hand,
deeper soil may increase the available space for below‐ground niche partitioning, on the …