Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

Since Grime's 1973 study on the competitive exclusion of herbaceous plants, ecologists
have intensively debated the Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) relationships for …

Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a critical environmental problem, prompting
frequent investigations into its consequences for various ecological systems. Few studies …

A substantial body of evidence has demonstrated that biodiversity stabilizes ecosystem
functioning over time in grassland ecosystems. However, the relative importance of different …

Eutrophication is a widespread environmental change that usually reduces the stabilizing
effect of plant diversity on productivity in local communities. Whether this effect is scale …

There is increasing evidence that species diversity enhances the temporal stability (TS) of
community productivity in different ecosystems, although its effect at the population and tree …

Biodiversity can stabilise productivity through different mechanisms, such as asynchronous
species responses to environmental variability and species stability. Global changes, like …

Temporal stability of net primary productivity (NPP) is important for predicting the reliable
provisioning of ecosystem services under global changes. Although nitrogen (N) addition is …

Despite growing concern over consequences of global changes, we still know little about
potential interactive effects of anthropogenic perturbations and diversity loss on the stability …

Extreme climate events, such as severe droughts and heavy rainfall, have profound impacts
on the sustainable provision of ecosystem functions and services. However, how N …