Intercropping is a powerful way to promote a more diversified plant community in the field,
thereby enabling complementary and facilitative relationships. In these systems, legumes …

The alpha diversity of ecologic communities is affected by many biotic and abiotic drivers
and, in turn, affects ecosystem functioning. Yet, patterns of alpha diversity in host-associated …

Whereas there is evidence that mixed-species approaches to production forestry in general
can provide positive outcomes relative to monocultures, it is less clear to what extent …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

When a person looks at an object while exploring it with their hand, vision and touch both
provide information for estimating the properties of the object. Vision frequently dominates …

Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of
things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we review how functional …

Accelerating rates of species extinction have prompted a growing number of researchers to
manipulate the richness of various groups of organisms and examine how this aspect of …

Over the last 50 years, the use of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizers has increased
at a faster rate than global food production, resulting in substantial decreases of N and P …

The relationship between species richness and ecosystem function, as measured by
productivity or biomass, is of long‐standing theoretical and practical interest in ecology. This …

Facilitation between species is thought to be a key mechanism by which biodiversity affects
the rates of resource use that govern the efficiency and productivity of ecosystems,,,; …