Recent advances and future research in ecological stoichiometry

J Sardans, IA Janssens, P Ciais, M Obersteiner… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies on ecological stoichiometry (ES) have increased rapidly in number in recent years.
Continuous exploration of classical concepts such as the growth-rate hypothesis (GRH),) …

Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment cause declines in invertebrate populations: a global meta‐analysis

MP Nessel, T Konnovitch, GQ Romero… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐driven changes in nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) inputs are modifying
biogeochemical cycles and the trophic state of many habitats worldwide. These alterations …

Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference

LE Dee, PJ Ferraro, CN Severen, KA Kimmel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Causal effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions can be estimated using experimental
or observational designs—designs that pose a tradeoff between drawing credible causal …

Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage

S Chen, W Wang, W Xu, Y Wang, H Wan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Despite evidence from experimental grasslands that plant diversity increases biomass
production and soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, it remains unclear whether this is true in …

Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time

EW Seabloom, PB Adler, J Alberti, L Biederman… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities are enriching many of Earth's ecosystems with biologically limiting mineral
nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). In grasslands, this enrichment generally …

Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context

CW Chang, T Miki, H Ye, S Souissi, R Adrian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Untangling causal links and feedbacks among biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and
environmental factors is challenging due to their complex and context-dependent …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes

U Brose, H Hillebrand - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) and its
consequence for ecosystem services has predominantly been studied by controlled, short …

A decade of insights into grassland ecosystem responses to global environmental change

ET Borer, JB Grace, WS Harpole… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Earth's biodiversity and carbon uptake by plants, or primary productivity, are intricately
interlinked, underlie many essential ecosystem processes, and depend on the interplay …

Cascading effects of climate change on plankton community structure

GEP Murphy, TN Romanuk, B Worm - Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plankton communities account for at least half of global primary production and play a key
role in the global carbon cycle. Warming and acidification may alter the interaction chains in …

Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity

WS Harpole, LL Sullivan, EM Lind, J Firn… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigmatic hypothesis for the effect of fertilisation on plant diversity represents a one‐
dimensional trade‐off for plants competing for below‐ground nutrients (generically) and …