… global meta-analysis of plant species diversity change over … >16,000 nonexperimental,
“local-scale” vegetation plots for … , especially longer time series, are required to reveal trends …

… biodiversity changes, and along with other drivers of global change, mark the dawn of the
current global biodiversity … current trajectory of biodiversity and the remedial actions needed. …

… Time 1 shows an intact forest. By … Imagine that after completing their meta-analysis, the
medical researcher … “we find no general tendency for local-scale plant species diversity to decline …

… Our results reveal that local trends of abundance, richness … demonstrating that biodiversity
changes at local scale are often … are part of the global ILTER network and the vast majority are …

… and semi-natural plant communities. We quantified local-scale changes in plant biodiversity
in … synthesized a large number of N-addition studies worldwide, in order to reveal the overall …

… stems from local-scale manipulations of biodiversity and the … the net effect of changes in
plant diversity on the global carbon … the potential magnitude of biodiversity changes to alter the …

… Plants stand still, so at the local scale we can count species … In this section, we first summarize
a recent meta-analysis … looking at the underlying data shows that many effects are quite …

… regions of the world where the climate has been changing the most… Estimates of local
biodiversity change over time stand up to … to absolute change in temperature reveals a more …

… of grazing exclusion were revealed only when aridity and … They found that aboveground
net primary productivity (ANPP)… to devise local-scale grazing strategies for maintaining plant …

… Globally, net primary productivity (NPP; total … meta-analysis on 2,753 trials published over
the last 53 years depicts strong evidence for the positive impact of plant diversification globally …