The links between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning remain highly controversial.
There is a growing consensus, however, that functional diversity, or the value and range of …

There exists little doubt that the Earth's biodiversity is declining. The Nature Conservancy, for
example, has documented that one-third of the plant and animal species in the United States …

Grazing exclusion using fences is a key policy being applied by the Chinese government to
rehabilitate degraded grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and elsewhere. However …

Studies of experimental grassland communities,,,,,, have demonstrated that plant diversity
can stabilize productivity through species asynchrony, in which decreases in the biomass of …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

Phylogenetic diversity (PD) describes the total amount of phylogenetic distance among
species in a community. Although there has been substantial research on the factors that …

Biotic homogenization, the gradual replacement of native biotas by locally expanding non-
natives, is a global process that diminishes floral and faunal distinctions among regions …

Most of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many
thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as …

The links between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning remain highly controversial.
There is a growing consensus, however, that functional diversity, or the value and range of …

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …