Growing threats from extreme climatic events and biodiversity loss have raised concerns
about their interactive consequences for ecosystem functioning. Evidence suggests …

Complementarity (CE) and selection effects (SE) have been either invoked to explain the
positive diversity–productivity relationship in natural and semi‐natural ecosystems. Few …

After 25 years of biodiversity experiments, it is clear that higher biodiversity (B) plant
communities are usually more productive and often have greater ecosystem functioning (EF) …

Establishing desirable cropping systems with higher fertilizer-use efficiency and lower risk of
environmental pollution is a promising approach for more sustainable agriculture …

Species-rich plant communities can produce twice as much aboveground biomass as
monocultures, but the mechanisms remain unresolved. We tested whether plant-soil …

Biodiversity drives the maintenance and stability of ecosystem functioning as well as many
of nature's benefits to people, yet people cause substantial biodiversity change. Despite …

The Dialogue series is intended to promote critical thinking and the expression of
contrasting or even opposing viewpoints on important ecological topics. Here, seven …

Human-induced biodiversity loss negatively affects ecosystem function, but the interactive
effects of biodiversity change across trophic levels remain insufficiently understood. We …

Intercropping plays an indispensable role in sustainable agriculture. The response of
bandwidth row ratio configuration to crop interspecific relationships and land productivity in …

Changing biodiversity alters ecosystem functioning in nature, but the degree to which this
relationship depends on the taxonomic identities rather than the number of species remains …