… 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 …

Much of the primary ecological research is published diffusely throughout a range of specialist
sci entific journals. With the increasing body of primary literature, there is a growing need …

… Understanding factors that maintain ecosystem stability … biodiversity decreases ecosystem
stability. However, as the originally sown experimental communities with reduced biodiversity …

… Additionally, we tested whether biodiversity, productivity and temporal stability were similarly
… Temporal stability did not depend on whether the species were planted equally abundant (…

… biodiversity affects the stability of ecosystem functioning through time, as well as into how
and why the short- and long-term effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning may differ. …

… Our results confirm that biodiversity increases biomass production, but they also point to the
… to an inverse relationship between biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning. …

… impact of biodiversity loss on the productivity and stability of … biodiversity affects ecosystem
functioning. “Selection effects” describe the processes whereby average levels of ecosystem …

… of the entire community, decreases the temporal stability of individual populations, … stability
as the ratio of mean abundance to its standard deviation. Interestingly, the temporal stability of …

… ecosystems. Here we add to this work by looking at how biodiversity jointly impacts two
aspects of ecosystem … /volume), and (2) the stability of biomass production through time (the CV …

… to ecological strategy (functional diversity) simultaneously influence ecosystem stability remains
… We explore the effects of multiple biodiversity dimensions on ecosystem stability, with a …