We present a multisite analysis of the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem
functioning within the European BIODEPTH network of plant‐diversity manipulation …

Biodiversity loss is proceeding at an unprecedented rate, yet we lack a thorough
understanding of the consequences of losing diversity at different scales. While species …

Deciphering the mechanisms that drive variation in biomass production across plant
communities of contrasting species composition and diversity is a main challenge of …

Balancing productivity, profitability, and environmental health is a key challenge for
agricultural sustainability. Most crop production systems in the United States are …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 251–259 Abstract Ongoing expansion of large‐scale agriculture
critically threatens natural habitats and the pollination services they offer. Creating patches …

The assumed relationship between biodiversity or local richness and the persistence of
'ecosystem services'(that can sustain productivity on-site as well as off-site, eg through …

Global change drivers are rapidly altering resource availability and biodiversity. While there
is consensus that greater biodiversity increases the functioning of ecosystems, the extent to …

Increasing landscape heterogeneity by restoring semi‐natural elements to reverse farmland
biodiversity declines is not always economically feasible or acceptable to farmers due to …

Understanding the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation
of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, needs a landscape perspective …

David Pimentel, Ulrich Stachow, David A. Takacs, Hans W. Brubaker, Amy R. Dumas, John
J. Meaney, John AS O'Neil, Douglas E. Onsi, and David B. Corzilius iological diversity is …