Revisiting the H oly G rail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

JL Funk, JE Larson, GM Ames, BJ Butterfield… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
One of ecology's grand challenges is develo** general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

T Cordier, L Alonso‐Sáez… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

Y Huang, Y Chen, N Castro-Izaguirre, M Baruffol… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in
grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to …

Eutrophication increases the similarity of cyanobacterial community features in lakes and reservoirs

J Zuo, P **ao, J Heino, F Tan, J Soininen, H Chen… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Eutrophication of inland waters is a mostly anthropogenic phenomenon impacting aquatic
biodiversity worldwide, and might change biotic community structure and ecosystem …

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 …

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

E Allan, P Manning, F Alt, J Binkenstein… - Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change, especially land‐use intensification, affects human well‐being by impacting
the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (multifunctionality). However, whether …

Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality

Y Le Bagousse-**uet, S Soliveres, N Gross… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Biodiversity encompasses multiple attributes such as the richness and abundance of
species (taxonomic diversity), the presence of different evolutionary lineages (phylogenetic …

The expanding role of DNA barcodes: Indispensable tools for ecology, evolution, and conservation

MR Gostel, WJ Kress - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA barcoding has transformed the fields of ecology, evolution, and conservation by
providing a rapid and effective tool for species identification. The growth of DNA barcodes as …

Biomass production and carbon/nitrogen ratio influence ecosystem services from cover crop mixtures

DM Finney, CM White, JP Kaye - Agronomy journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing plant diversity in agroecosystems with cover crops has been a successful
strategy to augment ecosystem services from agriculture, and increasing diversity of cover …

Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships

I Laforest-Lapointe, A Paquette, C Messier, SW Kembel - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has demonstrated links between plant
diversity and ecosystem functions such as productivity,. At other trophic levels, the plant …