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Open AccessAdvancing forest inventorying and monitoring
Evolving societal demands and accelerated ecological dynamics due to global change are rapidly altering forest ecosystems and their services. This has prompted the need for advancing forest inventorying and mo...
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Open AccessDrivers of soil microbial and detritivore activity across global grasslands
Covering approximately 40% of land surfaces, grasslands provide critical ecosystem services that rely on soil organisms. However, the global determinants of soil biodiversity and functioning remain underexplor...
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Open AccessThe positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate
Little is currently known about how climate modulates the relationship between plant diversity and soil organic carbon and the mechanisms involved. Yet, this knowledge is of crucial importance in times of clim...
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Open AccessMultidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication
Eutrophication usually impacts grassland biodiversity, community composition, and biomass production, but its impact on the stability of these community aspects is unclear. One challenge is that stability has ...
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Open AccessThe synergistic response of primary production in grasslands to combined nitrogen and phosphorus addition is caused by increased nutrient uptake and retention
A synergistic response of aboveground plant biomass production to combined nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) addition has been observed in many ecosystems, but the underlying mechanisms and their relative import...
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Open AccessGlobally consistent response of plant microbiome diversity across hosts and continents to soil nutrients and herbivores
All multicellular organisms host a diverse microbiome composed of microbial pathogens, mutualists, and commensals, and changes in microbiome diversity or composition can alter host fitness and function. Noneth...
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Open AccessEnvironmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass
Plant productivity varies due to environmental heterogeneity, and theory suggests that plant diversity can reduce this variation. While there is strong evidence of diversity effects on temporal variability of ...
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Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity
Ecological models predict that the effects of mammalian herbivore exclusion on plant diversity depend on resource availability and plant exposure to ungulate grazing over evolutionary time. Using an experiment...
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Open AccessNitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents
The amount of nitrogen (N) derived from symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in grasslands might be affected by anthropogenic N and phosphorus (P) inputs, but the underlying mechanisms are not known.
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20997-9.
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Open AccessGeneral destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales
Eutrophication is a widespread environmental change that usually reduces the stabilizing effect of plant diversity on productivity in local communities. Whether this effect is scale dependent remains to be elu...
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Author Correction: Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Belowground Biomass Response to Nutrient Enrichment Depends on Light Limitation Across Globally Distributed Grasslands
Anthropogenic activities are increasing nutrient inputs to ecosystems worldwide, with consequences for global carbon and nutrient cycles. Recent meta-analyses show that aboveground primary production is often ...
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Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs
Leaf traits are frequently measured in ecology to provide a ‘common currency’ for predicting how anthropogenic pressures impact ecosystem function. Here, we test whether leaf traits consistently respond to exp...
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Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity
Herbivores alter plant biodiversity (species richness) in many of the world’s ecosystems, but the magnitude and the direction of herbivore effects on biodiversity vary widely within and among ecosystems. One c...
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Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality
Biodiversity is declining in many local communities while also becoming increasingly homogenized across space. Experiments show that local plant species loss reduces ecosystem functioning and services, but the...
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Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity
Analysis of multi-year nutrient enrichment experiments carried out on 45 global grassland sites show that an addition of an increasing number of nutrients leads to a reduction in plant species diversity, and c...
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Open AccessPlant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands
Exotic species dominate many communities; however the functional significance of species’ biogeographic origin remains highly contentious. This debate is fuelled in part by the lack of globally replicated, sys...
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Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients
Terrestrial ecosystem productivity is widely accepted to be nutrient limited1. Although nitrogen (N) is deemed a key determinant of aboveground net primary production (ANPP)2,3, the prevalence of co-limitation by...
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Open AccessForaging ecology of three sympatric ungulate species – Behavioural and resource maps indicate differences between chamois, ibex and red deer
The spatial distribution of forage resources is a major driver of animal movement patterns. Understanding where animals forage is important for the conservation of multi-species communities, since interspecifi...
