Manipulation experiments are invaluable tools in global change ecology because they
enable causal and process-based understanding. However, artifacts and inherent limitations …

Plant diversity strongly influences ecosystem functions and services, such as soil carbon
storage. However, the mechanisms underlying the positive plant diversity effects on soil …

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 …

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 …

Ecosystems integrity and services are threatened by anthropogenic global changes.
Mitigating and adapting to these changes require knowledge of ecosystem functioning in the …

A conceptual understanding on how the vegetation's carbon (C) balance is determined by
source activity and sink demand is important to predict its C uptake and sequestration …

Abstract Changes in climate and biodiversity are widely recognized as primary global
change drivers of ecosystem structure and functioning, also affecting ecosystem services …

Biodiversity is essential for maintaining the terrestrial ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF).
Recent studies have revealed that the variations in terrestrial ecosystem functions are …

Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has
prompted biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …