Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought

LM Müller, M Bahn - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of droughts. These
events, which can cause significant perturbations of terrestrial ecosystems and potentially …

Does functional redundancy affect ecological stability and resilience? A review and meta‐analysis

CR Biggs, LA Yeager, DG Bolser, C Bonsell… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In light of rapid shifts in biodiversity associated with human impacts, there is an urgent need
to understand how changing patterns in biodiversity impact ecosystem function. Functional …

Diversity begets stability: Sublinear growth and competitive coexistence across ecosystems

IA Hatton, O Mazzarisi, A Altieri, M Smerlak - Science, 2024 - science.org
The worldwide loss of species diversity brings urgency to understanding how diverse
ecosystems maintain stability. Whereas early ecological ideas and classic observations …

Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability

F Pennekamp, M Pontarp, A Tabi, F Altermatt, R Alther… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Losses and gains in species diversity affect ecological stability,,,,,–and the sustainability of
ecosystem functions and services,,,,–. Experiments and models have revealed positive …

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

F Isbell, D Craven, J Connolly, M Loreau, B Schmid… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
It remains unclear whether biodiversity buffers ecosystems against climate extremes, which
are becoming increasingly frequent worldwide. Early results suggested that the ecosystem …

Towards a comparable quantification of resilience

J Ingrisch, M Bahn - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2018 - cell.com
Resilience is a key concept in ecology and describes the capacity of an ecosystem to
maintain its state and recover from disturbances. Numerous metrics have been applied to …

Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?

AK Knapp, KV Condon, CC Folks… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We review results from field experiments that simulate drought, an ecologically impactful
global change threat that is predicted to increase in magnitude, extent, duration and …

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

D Craven, N Eisenhauer, WD Pearse… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
A substantial body of evidence has demonstrated that biodiversity stabilizes ecosystem
functioning over time in grassland ecosystems. However, the relative importance of different …

The impacts of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review

S Piao, X Zhang, A Chen, Q Liu, X Lian, X Wang… - Science China Earth …, 2019 - Springer
The increased frequency of climate extremes in recent years has profoundly affected
terrestrial ecosystem functions and the welfare of human society. The carbon cycle is a key …

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

F Van der Plas, T Schröder-Georgi, A Weigelt… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Earth is home to over 350,000 vascular plant species that differ in their traits in innumerable
ways. A key challenge is to predict how natural or anthropogenically driven changes in the …