A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change

A Gonzalez, JM Chase… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The causes of biodiversity change are of great scientific interest and central to policy efforts
aimed at meeting biodiversity targets. Changes in species diversity and high rates of …

Universal beta-diversity–functioning relationships are neither observed nor expected

F van der Plas, J Hennecke, JM Chase… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Widespread evidence shows that local species richness (α-diversity) loss hampers the
biomass production and stability of ecosystems. β-Diversity, namely the variation of species …

Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity

Z Ratajczak, SL Collins, JM Blair… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The widespread extirpation of megafauna may have destabilized ecosystems and altered
biodiversity globally. Most megafauna extinctions occurred before the modern record …

Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients

M Liang, B Baiser, LM Hallett, Y Hautier… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Biodiversity has widely been documented to enhance local community stability but whether
such stabilizing effects of biodiversity extend to broader scales remains elusive. Here, we …

Fe (III) loaded chitosan-biochar composite fibers for the removal of phosphate from water

KN Palansooriya, S Kim, AD Igalavithana… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Excess phosphorous (P) in aquatic systems causes adverse environmental impacts
including eutrophication. This study fabricated Fe (III) loaded chitosan-biochar composite …

Nitrogen enrichment alters multiple dimensions of grassland functional stability via changing compositional stability

Q Xu, X Yang, J Song, J Ru, J Xia, S Wang… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment is known to alter the composition and functioning of plant
communities. However, how nutrient enrichment influences multiple dimensions of …

Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands

TO Muraina, C Xu, Q Yu, Y Yang, M Jing… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity can stabilise productivity through different mechanisms, such as asynchronous
species responses to environmental variability and species stability. Global changes, like …

Enhanced adsorption of phosphate from pickling wastewater by Fe-N co-pyrolysis biochar: Performance, mechanism and reusability

C Zhang, Y Dong, W Liu, D Yang, J Liu, Y Lu… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
A one-step method of preparation using a novel nitrogen (N)-doped Fe-rich biochar (N 5-
CB) resulted in a maximum adsorption capacity (314.52 mg/g) compared with Fe-rich …

Grazing‐induced biodiversity loss impairs grassland ecosystem stability at multiple scales

M Liang, C Liang, Y Hautier, KR Wilcox… - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Livestock grazing is a major driver shaping grassland biodiversity, functioning and stability.
Whether grazing impacts on grassland ecosystems are scale‐dependent remains unclear …

Scale-dependent changes in ecosystem temporal stability over six decades of succession

Y Meng, S Li, S Wang, SJ Meiners, L Jiang - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
A widely assumed, but largely untested, tenet in ecology is that ecosystem stability tends to
increase over succession. We rigorously test this idea using 60-year continuous data of old …