Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways
can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and …

Agricultural intensification increased crop productivity but simplified production with lower
diversity of crop** systems, higher genetic uniformity, and a higher uniformity of …

The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

In agricultural settings, plant diversity is often associated with low biomass yield and forage
quality, while biodiversity experiments typically find the opposite. We address this …

There is a global requirement to improve the environmental sustainability of intensively
managed grassland monocultures that rely on high rates of nitrogen fertiliser, which is …

Climate change associated with a greater variability of inter‐and intra‐annual droughts and
the occurrence of extreme events act in combination to challenge semi‐natural and sown …

Ecosystem functions are threatened by both recurrent droughts and declines in biodiversity
at a global scale, but the drought dependency of diversity-productivity relationships remains …

In a field experiment, annual nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions and grassland yield were
measured across different plant communities, comprising systematically varying …

Environmental composition is a major, though poorly understood, determinant of
microbiome dynamics. Here we ask whether general principles govern how microbial …

Assessing the overall performance of ecosystems requires a quantitative evaluation of
multifunctionality. We investigated plant species diversity effects on individual functions and …