Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

MW Cadotte, BJ Cardinale… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
… impacts plant biomass … in plant community biomass than other measures of diversity, such
as the number of species or functional groups. Our results reveal how evolutionary history can …

Contrasting plant productivity–diversity relationships across latitude: the role of evolutionary history

M Pärtel, L Laanisto, M Zobel - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… have been relatively common during evolutionary history, resulting in … evolutionary history
contributes to the observed productivity–diversity relationship of plants, and that the productivity

Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal symbioses and global host plant diversity

MC Brundrett, L Tedersoo - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
plant productivity in … the evolutionary history of these partnerships. Here we summarize
the global diversity of mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal (NM) plants, provide regional host plant

Evolutionary history determines how plant productivity responds to phylogenetic diversity and species richness

MA Genung, JA Schweitzer, JK Bailey - PeerJ, 2014 - peerj.com
… Although it is accepted that evolutionary history plays an important role in generating
patterns of biodiversity, our results also identify evolutionary history as a determinant of plant

What determines the relationship between plant diversity and habitat productivity?

M Zobel, M Pärtel - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… high productivity has usually been attributed to competitive exclusion. We suggest that
evolutionary history … the diversity–productivity relationship. On a global scale, unimodal diversity–…

Evolutionary history shapes grassland productivity through opposing effects on complementarity and selection

DJ Larkin, MC Glasenhardt, EW Williams, N Karimi… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… complementarity in primary productivity by diversifying plant assemblages' trait … on
productivity would increase with assemblages' values of key productivity traits; and (3) productivity

Community evolution increases plant productivity at low diversity

SJ van Moorsel, T Hahl, C Wagg, GB De Deyn… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… of eight plant species, no such differences were observed. Our findings suggest that plant
community evolution … simulating co-evolutionary processes between plants and soil organisms. …

The geologic history of primary productivity

PW Crockford, YMB On, LM Ward, R Milo, I Halevy - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
… -day productivity to the origin of life. Here, we address this gap by piecing together estimates
of primary productivity … We discuss implications for evolutionary trajectories and highlight the …

Experimental evidence that evolutionarily diverse assemblages result in higher productivity

MW Cadotte - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
… the evolutionary relatedness of constituent plant species across … evolutionary history and
maximize ecosystem function. … relationship between evolutionary history and productivity may …

Why does the unimodal species richness–productivity relationship not apply to woody species: a lack of clonality or a legacy of tropical evolutionary history?

L Laanisto, P Urbas, M Pärtel - Global Ecology and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
plants may be influenced by ecological and evolutionary factors. Unimodal species
richness–productivity … The decrease in richness at high productivity may be due to competitive …