The absence of vegetation in urban areas contributes to the establishment of the urban heat
island, markedly increasing thermal stress for residents, driving morbidity and mortality …

Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and
conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …

Understanding the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has major
implications. Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships are generally investigated at …

Ecosystems worldwide are rapidly losing taxonomic, phylogenetic, genetic, and functional
diversity as a result of human appropriation of natural resources, modification of habitats and …

The study of natural ecosystems and experiments using mixtures of plant species
demonstrates that both species and genetic diversity generally promote ecosystem …

Comparisons of closely related microorganisms have shown that individual genomes can be
highly diverse in terms of gene content. In this Review, we discuss several studies showing …

Highlights•The magnitude of variation in plant traits, as well as the combined influence of
key plant and consumer traits determines plant diversity effects on associated insects.• …

Intraspecific genetic diversity is an important component of biodiversity. A substantial body of
evidence has demonstrated positive effects of plant genetic diversity on plant performance …

Although vegetated green roofs can be difficult to establish and maintain, they are an
increasingly popular method for mitigating the negative environmental impacts of …

In modern crop production, each plant is often nearly genetically identical to its neighbours,
allowing insect pests and pathogens to move easily from plant to plant and decimate crop …