The goal of conservation and restoration activities is to maintain biological diversity and the
ecosystem services that this diversity provides. These activities traditionally focus on the …

The composition of communities is strongly altered by anthropogenic manipulations of
biogeochemical cycles, abiotic conditions, and trophic structure in all major ecosystems. Whereas …

The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our
understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines, particularly conservation, …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other …

… When we consider that the mean biomass of monocultures averaged 226 g·m −2 for the initial
sampling date of all 44 experiments, results of these time series suggest that CE increased …

Human alterations to nutrient cycles 1 , 2 and herbivore communities 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 are affecting
global biodiversity dramatically 2 . Ecological theory predicts these changes should be …

… In a metaanalysis of PD effects on productivity across 29 experiments, Cadotte et al. (2008)
found much variation in the explanatory value of PD (R 2 ranged from 0.01 to 0.69). Further, …

Environmental filtering, where the environment selects against certain species, is thought to
be a major mechanism structuring communities. However, recent criticisms cast doubt on …

Loss of biological diversity because of extinction is one of the most pronounced changes to
the global environment. For several decades, researchers have tried to understand how …

Phylogenetic diversity ( PD ) describes the total amount of phylogenetic distance among
species in a community. Although there has been substantial research on the factors that …