Human activities have increased the availability of nutrients in terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems. In grasslands, this eutrophication causes loss of plant species diversity, but the …

It remains unclear whether biodiversity buffers ecosystems against climate extremes, which
are becoming increasingly frequent worldwide 1 . Early results suggested that the ecosystem …

INTRODUCTION The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR; the effect of biodiversity on
ecosystem productivity) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis …

Atmospheric CO 2 enrichment may stimulate plant growth directly through (1) enhanced
photosynthesis or indirectly, through (2) reduced plant water consumption and hence slower soil …

Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in
grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to …

Global environmental changes are expected to impact the abundance of plants and animals
aboveground, but comparably little is known about the responses of belowground …

In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

In ecology, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research has seen a shift in perspective
from taxonomy to function in the last two decades, with successful application of trait-based …

Soil compaction is a major disturbance associated with logging, but we lack a fundamental
understanding of how this affects the soil microbiome. We assessed the structural resistance …

Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning ( BEF ) experiments address ecosystem‐level consequences
of species loss by comparing communities of high species richness with communities …