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Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests

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By Rui Yang, Ying Yuan, Amaia Ochandorena-Saa, Nian-Feng Wan, Muyao Li, Siyuan Shen, Jun-Xiang Zhou, Yu-Tong Zhu, Ben A. Woodcock, Yue-Qing Hu, Shinichi Nakagawa, David Tilman, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau, Peter B. Reich, Matteo Dainese, Forest Isbell, Bernhard Schmid, Kris Wyckhuys, Geoff M. Gurr, Nico Eisenhauer, Yann Hautier, Anu Eskelinen, Richard Bardgett, Linsheng Wan
| Science Magazine Verified
Abstract INTRODUCTION RESULTS AND DISCUSSION MATERIALS AND METHODS Acknowledgments Supplementary Materials REFERENCES Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract Multitrophic interactions can strongly influence the structure and functioning of ecosystems, but how plant diversity influences the direction and predictability of multitrophic interactions across agricultural and natural ecosystems remains unclear.
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Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests

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By Takehiro Sasaki, Daniela Hoss, Yuanyuan Huang, Yuki Iwachido, Liting Zheng, Luis Abdala-Roberts, Eric Allan, Harald Auge, Nadia Barsoum, Jürgen Bauhus, Christel Baum, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Friderike Beyer, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Seraina L. Cappelli, Chengjin Chu, Dylan Craven, Caroline Daniel, Jiri Dolezal, Anne Ebeling, Marina Chagas Fagundes, Olga Ferlian, Gislene Ganade, Douglas L. Godbold, Nathaly R Guerrero-Ramirez, Joannès Guillemot, Peter Hajek, Andy Hector, Dirk Hölscher, Hervé Jactel, Anke Jentsch, Julia Koricheva, Holger Kreft, Juergen Kreyling, Jan Lepš, Wei Lin, Christian Messier, Sebastian Meyer, Florencia Montagnini, Bart Muys, Charles A. Nock, Alain Paquette, William Parker, John Parker, Víctor Parra-Tabla, John A. Parrotta, Gustavo B. Paterno, Noémie A. Pichon, Daniel Piotto, Quentin Ponette, Catherine Potvin, Peter B. Reich, Boris Rewald, Agnès Robin, Christiane Roscher, Hans Sandén, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Florian Schnabel, Eric B. Searle, Alrun Siebenkäs, Rachel J. Standish, David Tilman, Jasper van Ruijven, Kris Verheyen, Alexandra Weigelt, Martin Weih, Brian Wilsey, Bernhard Schmid, Forest Isbell, Nico Eisenhauer, Tobias Gebauer, Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume, Vojtech Lanta, Maybeth Mendoza-Espinosa, Celine Meredieu, Wayne Polley, Ramona Werner
| Nature Verified
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Trophic cascades drive sustainability in the agricultural heritage rice-fish coculture system

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By Nian-Feng Wan, Siyuan Shen, Muyao Li, Yan Chen, Fei-Yi Pan, Xin Chen, Ben A. Woodcock, Yue-Qing Hu, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau, Bernhard Schmid, Nico Eisenhauer, David Crowder, Jacob Weiner, Carlos Martínez-Núñez, Teja Tscharntke, Qiming Li, Shiyun Qiu, Shengming Sun, Yingjuan Yao, Qi Su, Jun-Xiang Zhou, Yu-Tong Zhu, Tong-Li Jiang, Jie Liu, Jian-Jun Tang
| Cell Press Verified
The original Figure 1 in this paper included a world map featuring national boundary lines that were not germane to the subject of the figure. In response to recent reader concerns about some of these boundary lines, we have corrected Figure 1 in the original article so that it includes the relevant scientific data without the distraction of national boundary lines. The authors apologize for any confusion.
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Liana cutting accelerates the structural recovery of once-logged tropical forests at a fraction of the cost of tree planting

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By Toby Jackson, Andy Hector, Eleanor Jackson, Michael O’Brien, Gianluca Cerullo, David A. Coomes, David Burslem, Fabian Fischer, Christopher D. Philipson, Elia Godoong, Charissa Wong, Martin Svátek, Michele Dalponte, Tommaso Jucker, Lucy V.J. Beese
| Cell Press Verified
Keywords forest restoration liana cutting tree planting forest structure dipterocarps Borneo LiDAR carbon Introduction Over the past century, vast portions of the world’s tropical forests have been fragmented and selectively logged, leaving more than half of all remaining tropical forests in a degraded state.1 Restoring these degraded forests is essential to limit global warming to 2°C and prevent further biodiversity loss.2,3 Indeed, tropical forest restoration is widely recognized as one of...
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Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery

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By Forest Isbell, Akira Mori, Michel Loreau, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, Maggie Anderson, Caroline Brophy, Qingqing Chen, Amber C. Churchill, Adam Clark, Dylan Craven, Nico Eisenhauer, Yann Hautier, Miao He, Jin-Sheng He, Andy Hector, Sydney Hedberg, Sarah E. Hobbie, Pubin Hong, Guopeng Liang, Maowei Liang, Shan Luo, Neha Mohanbabu, Shahid Naeem, Pascal A. Niklaus, Xiaobin Pan, Bernhard Schmid, Harry Shepherd, Steph Varghese, Michiel P. Veldhuis, Shaopeng Wang, Qianna Xu, Liting Zheng, Chad R. Zirbel, Karen Castillioni, Hanan C. Farah, Lau A. Gherardi, Cristy Portales-Reyes, Carmen R. E. Watkins
| Nature Verified
Abstract Stability can be desirable for many natural and social systems. Temporal stability, the invariability of a system over time, can be enhanced by resisting displacement during perturbations, accelerating recovery after them, or both1,2,3,4. Likewise, resilience (sensu proximity to unperturbed levels after a perturbation5,6,7,8,9,10) also has components of withstanding (resistance) and recovering after perturbations11,12.
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Trophic cascades drive sustainability in the agricultural heritage rice-fish coculture system

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By Nian-Feng Wan, Siyuan Shen, Muyao Li, Yan Chen, Fei-Yi Pan, Xin Chen, Ben A. Woodcock, Yue-Qing Hu, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau, Bernhard Schmid, Nico Eisenhauer, David Crowder, Jacob Weiner, Carlos Martínez-Núñez, Teja Tscharntke, Qiming Li, Shiyun Qiu, Shengming Sun, Yingjuan Yao, Qi Su, Jun-Xiang Zhou, Yu-Tong Zhu, Tong-Li Jiang, Jie Liu, Jian-Jun Tang
| Cell Press Verified
Keywords agricultural sustainability path analysis rice-fish coculture top-down control trophic cascades Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References 1. Loreau, M. ∙ Hector, A. Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments Nature. 2001; 412:72-76 2. Tilman, D. ∙ Reich, P.B. ∙ Knops, J.M.H. Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment Nature. 2006; 441:629-632 3. Isbell, F. ∙ Calcagno, V. ∙ Hector, A. ...
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Mycorrhizal associations modify tree diversity−productivity relationships across experimental tree plantations

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By Shan Luo, Bernhard Schmid, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Andy Hector
| New Phytologist
Introduction Global environmental changes affect the diversity, composition, and functioning of ecosystems, invoking research to evaluate the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF; Loreau et al., 2001; Hooper et al., 2005; Tilman et al., 2014). Many studies have demonstrated that greater tree species richness can increase forest productivity (Zhang et al., 2012; Huang et al., 2018; Ammer, 2019; Feng et al., 2022).
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Tree growth and survival are more sensitive to high rainfall than drought in an aseasonal forest in Malaysia - Communications Earth & Environment

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By Michael O’Brien, Andy Hector
| Nature Verified
Abstract Global change research has largely focused on the effects of drought on forest dynamics while the importance of excessive rainfall that can cause waterlogged soils has largely been assessed in riparian zones or seasonally flooded sites. However, increased rainfall may also cause decreased growth and survival of tree species in lowland aseasonal tropical forests due to increased risk from potentially more extensive and frequent waterlogged soils.
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Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding - Nature Communications

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By Liting Zheng, Kathryn E. Barry, Peter B. Reich, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Nico Eisenhauer, Jürgen Bauhus, Helge Bruelheide, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Jiri Dolezal, Harald Auge, Olga Ferlian, Sebastian Fiedler, Gislene Ganade, Peter Hajek, Andy Hector, Bruno Hérault, Dirk Hölscher, Julia Koricheva, Holger Kreft, Jan Lepš, Christian Messier, Sandra Muller, Alain Paquette, Gustavo B. Paterno, Michael P. Perring, Quentin Ponette, Rachel J. Standish, Laura Williams, Yongchuan Yang, Bernhard Schmid, Markus Fischer, David Tilman, Enrong Yan, David I. Forrester, Charles A. Nock, John A. Parrotta, Boris Rewald, Douglas L. Godbold, Martyna M. Kotowska, Cecilia Palmborg
| Nature Verified
Abstract 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 (i.e., higher species-level productivity in diverse communities compared with monocultures) remains unclear.
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Do the rich get richer? Varying effects of tree species identity and diversity on the richness of understory taxa

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By Robert Stejskal, Andy Hector, Juilette Champagne, Donald Schoolmaster, Daniel Volařík, Filip Trnka, Tomáš Koutecký, Martin Svátek, Radim Matula
| usgs.gov
Understory herbs and soil invertebrates play key roles in soil formation and nutrient cycling in forests. Studies suggest that diversity in the canopy and in the understory are positively associated, but these studies often confound the effects of tree species diversity with those of tree species identity and abiotic conditions.
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Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

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By Andrew T. Tredennick, Peter Adler, James B. Grace, Cynthia Brown, Scott Collins, Michael Crawley, Jennifer Firn, Eric Lind, Andrew MacDougall, Charles Mitchell, John Morgan Verified, Lauren Sullivan, Ryan Williams, W Stanley Harpole, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, T. Michael Anderson, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lori A. Biederman, Yvonne M. Buckley, Cheng-Jin Chu, Philip A. Fay, Daniel S. Gruner, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, Helmut Hillebrand, Kevin P. Kirkman, Ramesh Laungani, Rebecca L. McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, John L. Orrock, Pablo L. Peri, Suzanne M. Prober, Anita C. Risch, Martin Schuetz, Karina L. Speziale, Rachel J. Standish, Glenda M. Wardle, Louie H. Yang
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Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness" Science Tredennick, AT; Adler, PB; Harpole, WS; Borer, ET; Seabloom, EW; By: Andrew T Tredennick, Peter B. Adler, James B. Grace, W Stanley Harpole, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, T. Michael Anderson, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lori A. Biederman, Cynthia S. Brown, Yvonne M. Buckley, Cheng-Jin Chu, Scott L. Collins, Michael J. Crawley, Philip A. Fay, Jennifer Firn, Daniel S.
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Darwin and the First Ecological Experiment

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By Carolina Barillas-Mury, Elissa Fink, K. A. Farley, Andy Hector
| Science Magazine Verified
Information & Authors Information Published In Science Volume 295 | Issue 5555 25 January 2002 Copyright © 2002 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Submission history Published in print: 25 January 2002 Permissions Request permissions for this article. Authors Metrics & Citations Metrics Article Usage Altmetrics Citations Export citation Select the format you want to export the citation of this publication. Direct import Check Access Check Access References References 1 Ehrlich P.
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