Plant biodiversity–productivity relationships become stronger over time in grasslands,
forests, and agroecosystems. Plant shoot and root litter is important in mediating these …

Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural
ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially …

Aim It is crucial to monitor how the productivity of grasslands varies with its temporal stability
for management of these ecosystems. However, identifying the direction of the productivity …

Plant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over time. Whether the
strengthening of diversity effects is caused by temporal shifts in species-level overyielding …

Plant–soil feedback (PSF) and diversity–productivity relationships are important research
fields to study drivers and consequences of changes in plant biodiversity. While studies …

Plant diversity generally promotes biomass production, but how the shape of the response
curve changes with time remains unclear. This is a critical knowledge gap because the …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a valuable resource for mediating global climate change and
securing food production. Despite an alarming rate of global plant diversity loss …

Aim Tropical forests account for a quarter of the global carbon storage and a third of the
terrestrial productivity. Few studies have teased apart the relative importance of …

Understanding when biodiversity conservation and ecosystem-service maintenance are
compatible is needed within the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem …

There is consensus that plant species richness enhances plant productivity within natural
grasslands, but the underlying drivers remain debated. Recently, differential accumulation of …