Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

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 …

The insurance hypothesis, stating that biodiversity can increase ecosystem stability, has
received wide research and political attention. Recent experiments suggest that climate …

Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a critical environmental problem, prompting
frequent investigations into its consequences for various ecological systems. Few studies …

A substantial body of evidence has demonstrated that biodiversity stabilizes ecosystem
functioning over time in grassland ecosystems. However, the relative importance of different …

Biodiversity has widely been documented to enhance local community stability but whether
such stabilizing effects of biodiversity extend to broader scales remains elusive. Here, we …

Despite much recent progress, our understanding of diversity–stability relationships across
different study systems remains incomplete. In particular, recent theory clarified that within …

The stability of ecological communities is critical for the stable provisioning of ecosystem
services, such as food and forage production, carbon sequestration, and soil fertility. Greater …

Our planet is facing significant changes of biodiversity across spatial scales. Although the
negative effects of local biodiversity (α diversity) loss on ecosystem stability are well …

New analytical tools applied to long‐term data demonstrate that ecological communities are
highly dynamic over time. We developed an r package, library (“codyn”), to help ecologists …