2007
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709069104
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Abstract: 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 diversity impacts ecological processes that control the functioning of ecosystems. We summarize the results of 44 experiments that have manipulated the richness of plants to examine how plant diversity affects the production of biomass. We show that mixtures of species produce an average of 1.7 times more biomass than species monoculture… Show more

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“…This advantage toward heterospecific neighbors can arise as a result of interspecific niche partitioning and facilitative interactions (complementarity effects) which have been shown to be increasingly important in driving community biomass production over time (Cardinale et al. 2007; Fargione et al. 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This advantage toward heterospecific neighbors can arise as a result of interspecific niche partitioning and facilitative interactions (complementarity effects) which have been shown to be increasingly important in driving community biomass production over time (Cardinale et al. 2007; Fargione et al. 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2015) and prevents us from elucidating how species aggregation affects the development of grassland complementarity effects which typically arise after several growing seasons (Cardinale et al. 2007). Lamošová et al.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, internal re--organisations of system states may be essential in allowing a system to absorb disturbances whilst remaining in a stability domain which delivers better ecosystem function. Similarly, BE--F literature documents in detail both empirically [12,17,18] and theoretically [19,20] how changes in the composition of communities promote the maintenance of functions…”
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“…The niche complementarity hypothesis motivated the functional trait divergence (FD), which basically represents the variance in trait values, the abundance-weighted variance of traits using a single trait of each species in the community (Mason et al, 2003). This mass ratio hypothesis (Grime, 1998) is analogous to the hypothesis from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments using plant monocultures and mixtures, which hypothesizes that variations in ecosystem productivity are determined by the presence or absence of highly productive species and not by the variety and complementarity of species (Cardinale et al, 2007). The mass ratio and niche-complementarity effects are not necessarily mutually exclusive; both have been shown to operate in natural ecosystems and can have different relative importance in different situations (Potvin and Gotelli, 2008;Diaz et al, 2009;Mouillot et al, 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%