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Ecosystem context illuminates conflicting roles of plant diversity in carbon storage by Carol Adair, E., Hooper, David U., Paquette, Alain, Hungate, Bruce A., Fukami, Tadashi

“…Plant diversity can increase biomass production in plot‐scale studies, but applying these results to ecosystem carbon (C) storage at larger spatial and…”
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The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems by Cardinale, Bradley J., Matulich, Kristin L., Hooper, David U., Byrnes, Jarrett E., Duffy, Emmett, Gamfeldt, Lars, Balvanera, Patricia, O'connor, Mary I., Gonzalez, Andrew

“…Over the past several decades, a rapidly expanding field of research known as biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has begun to quantify how the world's…”
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Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions by Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Gamfeldt, Lars, Isbell, Forest, Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Griffin, John N., Hector, Andy, Cardinale, Bradley J., Hooper, David U., Dee, Laura E., Emmett Duffy, J., Freckleton, Robert

“…Summary Extensive research shows that more species‐rich assemblages are generally more productive and efficient in resource use than comparable assemblages…”
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Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants by SUDING, KATHARINE N, LAVOREL, SANDRA, CHAPIN, F.S. III, CORNELISSEN, JOHANNES H.C, DÍAZ, SANDRA, GARNIER, ERIC, GOLDBERG, DEBORAH, HOOPER, DAVID U, JACKSON, STEPHEN T, NAVAS, MARIE-LAURE

“…Predicting ecosystem responses to global change is a major challenge in ecology. A critical step in that challenge is to understand how changing environmental…”
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Shifts in species composition constrain restoration of overgrazed grassland using nitrogen fertilization in Inner Mongolian steppe, China by Chen, Qing, Hooper, David U, Lin, Shan

“…Long-term livestock over-grazing causes nitrogen outputs to exceed inputs in Inner Mongolia, suggesting that low levels of nitrogen fertilization could help…”
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Grazing regime alters plant community structure via patch‐scale diversity in semiarid grasslands by Li, Wenhuai, Hooper, David U., Wu, Liji, Bakker, Jonathan D., Gianuca, Andros T., Wu, X. Ben, Taube, Friedhelm, Wang, Chaonan, Bai, Yongfei

“…Selective grazing of livestock creates lightly and heavily grazed vegetation patches, which together contribute to the whole community in grazed grasslands…”
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Long‐term propagule pressure overwhelms initial community determination of invader success by Carr, Amanda N., Hooper, David U., Dukes, Jeffrey S.

“…The role of plant diversity in reducing invasions has generated decades of debate. Diverse communities might be more resistant to invasion because the…”
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The Effects of Plant Composition and Diversity on Ecosystem Processes by Hooper, David U., Vitousek, Peter M.

“…The relative effects of plant richness (the number of plant functional groups) and composition (the identity of the plant functional groups) on primary…”
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Interactions between Aboveground and Belowground Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Feedbacks by Hooper, David U., Bignell, David E., Brown, Valerie K., Brussard, Lijbert, Dangerfield, J. Mark, Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Coleman, David C., Giller, Ken E., Lavelle, Patrick, Van Der Putten, Wim H., De Ruiter, Peter C., Rusek, Josef, Silver, Whendee L., Tiedje, James M., Wolters, Volkmar

“…Hooper et al assessed the evidence for correlation between aboveground and belowground diversity and concluded that a variety of mechanisms could lead to…”
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Biotic Control Over the Functioning of Ecosystems by Chapin, F. Stuart, Walker, Brian H., Hobbs, Richard J., Hooper, David U., Lawton, John H., Sala, Osvaldo E., Tilman, David

“…Changes in the abundance of species-especially those that influence water and nutrient dynamics, trophic interactions, or disturbance regime-affect the…”
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Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity by Gonzalez, Andrew, Cardinale, Bradley J., Allington, Ginger R. H., Byrnes, Jarrett, Endsley, K. Arthur, Brown, Daniel G., Hooper, David U., Isbell, Forest, O'Connor, Mary I., Loreau, Michel

“…Global species extinction rates are orders of magnitude above the background rate documented in the fossil record. However, recent data syntheses have found…”
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity by Cardinale, Bradley J., Duffy, J. Emmett, Gonzalez, Andrew, Hooper, David U., Perrings, Charles, Venail, Patrick, Narwani, Anita, Mace, Georgina M., Tilman, David, Wardle, David A., Kinzig, Ann P., Daily, Gretchen C., Loreau, Michel, Grace, James B., Larigauderie, Anne, Srivastava, Diane S., Naeem, Shahid

“…Two decades ago the first Earth Summit raised the question of how biological diversity loss alters ecosystem functioning and affects humanity; this Review…”
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A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change by Hooper, David U., Adair, E. Carol, Cardinale, Bradley J., Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Hungate, Bruce A., Matulich, Kristin L., Gonzalez, Andrew, Duffy, J. Emmett, Gamfeldt, Lars, O’Connor, Mary I.

“…Although loss of biodiversity is known to cause reduction in ecosystem function, it is not known how this threat compares to other environmental alterations…”
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Functional composition controls invasion success in a California serpentine grassland by Hooper, David U., Dukes, Jeffrey S.

“…1. Recent debates about the role of biotic resistance in controlling invasion success have focused on effects of species richness. However, functional…”
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Selective grazing and seasonal precipitation play key roles in shaping plant community structure of semi-arid grasslands by Wan, Hongwei, Bai, Yongfei, Hooper, David U, Schönbach, Philipp, Gierus, Martin, Schiborra, Anne, Taube, Friedhelm

“…CONTEXT: Many studies have examined how intensity of grazing and patterns of precipitation individually and interactively influence the spatial and temporal…”
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Effects of resource addition on recovery of production and plant functional composition in degraded semiarid grasslands by Chen, Qing, Hooper, David U., Li, Hui, Gong, Xiao Ying, Peng, Fei, Wang, Hong, Dittert, Klaus, Lin, Shan

“…Degradation of semiarid ecosystems from overgrazing threatens a variety of ecosystem services. Rainfall and nitrogen commonly co-limit production in semiarid…”
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The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage by Hungate, Bruce A, Barbier, Edward B, Ando, Amy W, Marks, Samuel P, Reich, Peter B, van Gestel, Natasja, Tilman, David, Knops, Johannes M H, Hooper, David U, Butterfield, Bradley J, Cardinale, Bradley J

“…Carbon storage by ecosystems is valuable for climate protection. Biodiversity conservation may help increase carbon storage, but the value of this influence…”
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The Role of Complementarity and Competition in Ecosystem Responses to Variation in Plant Diversity by Hooper, David U.

“…To investigate how plant diversity affects ecosystem-level processes such as primary production and nutrient cycling, I established an experimental plant…”
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Consequences of changing biodiversity by Chapin III, F. Stuart, Zavaleta, Erika S, Eviner, Valerie T, Naylor, Rosamond L, Vitousek, Peter M, Reynolds, Heather L, Hooper, David U, Lavorel, Sandra, Sala, Osvaldo E, Hobbie, Sarah E, Mack, Michelle C, Díaz, Sandra

“…Human alteration of the global environment has triggered the sixth major extinction event in the history of life and caused widespread changes in the global…”
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Nitrogen limitation in dryland ecosystems: responses to geographical and temporal variation in precipitation by Hooper, D.U, Johnson, L

“…We investigated the relationship between plant nitrogen limitation and water availability in dryland ecosystems. We tested the hypothesis that at lower levels…”
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