Defending Earth's terrestrial microbiome

C Averill, MA Anthony, P Baldrian, F Finkbeiner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial life represents the majority of Earth's biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from
medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential …

Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle

F de Bello, S Lavorel, LM Hallett, E Valencia… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Under global change, how biological diversity and ecosystem services are maintained in
time is a fundamental question. Ecologists have long argued about multiple mechanisms by …

Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

F Schnabel, X Liu, M Kunz, KE Barry, FJ Bongers… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Extreme climatic events threaten forests and their climate mitigation potential globally.
Understanding the drivers promoting ecosystem stability is therefore considered crucial for …

Climate mediates the biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationship globally

P García-Palacios, N Gross, J Gaitán… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The insurance hypothesis, stating that biodiversity can increase ecosystem stability, has
received wide research and political attention. Recent experiments suggest that climate …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

WW Weisser, C Roscher, ST Meyer, A Ebeling… - Basic and applied …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

Biodiversity and species competition regulate the resilience of microbial biofilm community

K Feng, Z Zhang, W Cai, W Liu, M Xu, H Yin… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem stability is poorly understood in
microbial communities. Biofilm communities in small bioreactors called microbial electrolysis …

Model averaging in ecology: A review of Bayesian, information‐theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

CF Dormann, JM Calabrese… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In ecology, the true causal structure for a given problem is often not known, and several
plausible models and thus model predictions exist. It has been claimed that using weighted …

Diversity and asynchrony in soil microbial communities stabilizes ecosystem functioning

C Wagg, Y Hautier, S Pellkofer, S Banerjee, B Schmid… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Theoretical and empirical advances have revealed the importance of biodiversity for
stabilizing ecosystem functions through time. Despite the global degradation of soils …

Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment

C Wagg, C Roscher, A Weigelt, A Vogel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet
how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the long-term lacks …

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

Y Hautier, P Zhang, M Loreau, KR Wilcox… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Eutrophication is a widespread environmental change that usually reduces the stabilizing
effect of plant diversity on productivity in local communities. Whether this effect is scale …