… biodiversity and stability (Griffin et al., 2009). Although I present results for how stability varies
across a natural biodiversity gradient, … in biodiversity cause changes in ecological stability. …

… Although levels of biological diversity may seem to be equivalent in different … on gradients;
a dynamic mosaic of communities; and accumulation and evolution of taxa in extremely stable …

… components of stability is essential, a more integrative approach to ecological stability could
… our own) that measured multiple stability components across diversity gradients based on a …

… Furthermore, using examples we emphasize that direct measurement of the stability of
ecosystem services across gradients of human impacts can show how stability is influenced by …

… This results in positive effects of biodiversity on stability across the extremity gradient, as
stress-induced decreases in functioning are relatively less at higher diversity (but note that the …

… that decreased diversity would lead to decreased ecological stability and functioning, and …
decreased along the gradient. Plant species richness declined along the N gradient for each …

… Accordingly, it is likely that multiple and correlated facets of biodiversity 28 underpin … stability
33,34,35 . We hypothesize that the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem stability …

… The contemporary definition of ecological stability refers to the ability of a community to (1) …
This refinement of the meaning of ecological stability occurred partly through debate following …

… broader gradients, such as latitudinal gradients, because composition, climate, soils, and
many other factors shift simultaneously on such gradients. The Diversity–Stability Debate …

… gradients in factors that regulate diversity. We believe that, across larger ecological scales,
extrinsic determinants of biodiversity … of certain measures of community stability. Here we use …