Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle

F de Bello, S Lavorel, LM Hallett, E Valencia… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
… In this review, we analyze the main pieces of the biodiversity- and trait-stability puzzle and
explore connections between these pieces that can generate integrative conceptual and …

Global evidence of positive biodiversity effects on spatial ecosystem stability in natural grasslands

Y Wang, MW Cadotte, Y Chen, LH Fraser… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… that biodiversity stabilizes … biodiversity–productivity and biodiversity–spatial stability
relationships at the global scale provides a new perspective on the functioning of natural ecosystems

Does functional redundancy affect ecological stability and resilience? A review and meta‐analysis

CR Biggs, LA Yeager, DG Bolser, C Bonsell… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… functional redundancy and ecosystem stability and resilience. We … 15 articles across aquatic
and terrestrial ecosystems. Overall, the … ecological theory related to effects of biodiversity on …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in naturally assembled communities

F van der Plas - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
biodiversitystability relationships into the biodiversity effects on average biomass (the
numerator part of the stability … (the denominator of the stability metric), or on biodiversity effects on …

Grazing‐induced biodiversity loss impairs grassland ecosystem stability at multiple scales

M Liang, C Liang, Y Hautier, KR Wilcox… - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… A theoretical framework of ecological stability across scales illustrated with our experiment.
Ecosystem stability is defined as the mean of an ecosystem function divided by its standard …

Scaling‐up biodiversityecosystem functioning research

A Gonzalez, RM Germain, DS Srivastava… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… The key finding from work on the IAR is that the scaling of ecosystem stability with area is
governed by the spatial asynchrony in species’ biomass fluctuations. Asynchrony in biomass …

Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability

Q Xu, X Yang, Y Yan, S Wang, M Loreau… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… more than compensates for the decline in population stability, resulting in greater ecosystem
stability. The results of many terrestrial biodiversity studies are consistent with this scenario. …

Advancing our understanding of ecological stability

S Kéfi, V Domínguez‐García, I Donohue… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… to the understanding of the links between biodiversity and stability, but it is, nonetheless, …
the consequences of biodiversity loss in natural conditions. Indeed, the stability assessed from …

Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change

P Hong, B Schmid, F De Laender… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… We found that biodiversity increased ecosystem functioning in both ambient and manipulated
… Our findings support biodiversity conservation as a key strategy for sustainable ecosystem

Nitrogen addition reduced ecosystem stability regardless of its impacts on plant diversity

J Liu, X Li, Q Ma, X Zhang, Y Chen, F Isbell… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Global environmental changes are altering ecosystem stability, sometimes by altering
biodiversity. For example, by driving grassland plant species loss, nitrogen (N) addition can …