Biological insurance theory predicts that, in a variable environment, aggregate ecosystem
properties will vary less in more diverse communities because declines in the performance …

Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural
ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially …

Biodiversity ensures ecosystem functioning and provisioning of ecosystem services, but it
remains unclear how biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships depend on the …

Biodiversity loss can affect ecosystem functions and services,,,. Individual ecosystem
functions generally show a positive asymptotic relationship with increasing biodiversity …

A coordinated continental‐scale field experiment across 31 sites was used to compare the
biomass yield of monocultures and four species mixtures associated with intensively …

The relationship between plant diversity and productivity in grasslands could depend, partly,
on how diversity affects vertical distributions of root biomass in soil; yet, no prior study has …

The conservation of biodiversity critically depends on the value that humans attach to it.
Apart from an ecological and economic value, an aesthetic value has often been assigned to …

Faced with an accelerating rate of environmental change and the associated need for a
more sustainable, low-input agriculture, the urgent new challenge for crop science is to find …

In agricultural settings, plant diversity is often associated with low biomass yield and forage
quality, while biodiversity experiments typically find the opposite. We address this …

Climate change associated with a greater variability of inter‐and intra‐annual droughts and
the occurrence of extreme events act in combination to challenge semi‐natural and sown …