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Linking biodiversity and ecosystems: towards a unifying ecological theory by Loreau, Michel

“…Community ecology and ecosystem ecology provide two perspectives on complex ecological systems that have largely complementary strengths and weaknesses…”
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Biodiversity and ecosystem stability across scales in metacommunities by Wang, Shaopeng, Loreau, Michel, Jordan, Ferenc

“…Although diversity–stability relationships have been extensively studied in local ecosystems, the global biodiversity crisis calls for an improved…”
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Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms by Loreau, Michel, de Mazancourt, Claire

“…There is mounting evidence that biodiversity increases the stability of ecosystem processes in changing environments, but the mechanisms that underlie this…”
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The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities by Gonzalez, Andrew, Loreau, Michel

“…Ecological communities are constantly responding to environmental change. Theory and evidence suggest that the loss or decline of stress-intolerant species can…”
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Partitioning the biodiversity effects on productivity into density and size components by Tatsumi, Shinichi, Loreau, Michel

“…Plant density and size — two factors that represent plant survival and growth — are key determinants of yield but have rarely been analysed explicitly in the…”
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Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences by Sapijanskas, Jurgis, Paquette, Alain, Potvin, Catherine, Kunert, Norbert, Loreau, Michel

“…Light partitioning is often invoked as a mechanism for positive plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning. Yet evidence for an improved distribution of…”
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A macro‐ecological approach to predation density‐dependence by Barbier, Matthieu, Wojcik, Laurie, Loreau, Michel

“…Predation often deviates from the law of mass action: many micro‐ and meso‐scale experiments have shown that consumption saturates with resource abundance, and…”
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Species Synchrony and Its Drivers: Neutral and Nonneutral Community Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments by Loreau, Michel, de Mazancourt, Claire

“…Independent species fluctuations are commonly used as a null hypothesis to test the role of competition and niche differences between species in community…”
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Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions by Mori, Akira S., Dee, Laura E., Gonzalez, Andrew, Ohashi, Haruka, Cowles, Jane, Wright, Alexandra J., Loreau, Michel, Hautier, Yann, Newbold, Tim, Reich, Peter B., Matsui, Tetsuya, Takeuchi, Wataru, Okada, Kei-ichi, Seidl, Rupert, Isbell, Forest

“…The global impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change are interlinked, but the feedbacks between them are rarely assessed. Areas with greater tree…”
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General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales by Hautier, Yann, Zhang, Pengfei, Loreau, Michel, Wilcox, Kevin R., Seabloom, Eric W., Borer, Elizabeth T., Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Koerner, Sally E., Komatsu, Kimberly J., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Hector, Andy, Adler, Peter B., Alberti, Juan, Arnillas, Carlos A., Bakker, Jonathan D., Brudvig, Lars A., Bugalho, Miguel N., Cadotte, Marc, Caldeira, Maria C., Carroll, Oliver, Crawley, Mick, Collins, Scott L., Daleo, Pedro, Dee, Laura E., Eisenhauer, Nico, Eskelinen, Anu, Fay, Philip A., Gilbert, Benjamin, Hansar, Amandine, Isbell, Forest, Knops, Johannes M. H., MacDougall, Andrew S., McCulley, Rebecca L., Moore, Joslin L., Morgan, John W., Mori, Akira S., Peri, Pablo L., Pos, Edwin T., Power, Sally A., Price, Jodi N., Reich, Peter B., Risch, Anita C., Roscher, Christiane, Sankaran, Mahesh, Schütz, Martin, Smith, Melinda, Stevens, Carly, Tognetti, Pedro M., Virtanen, Risto, Wardle, Glenda M., Wilfahrt, Peter A., Wang, Shaopeng

“…Eutrophication is a widespread environmental change that usually reduces the stabilizing effect of plant diversity on productivity in local communities…”
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Does functional redundancy exist? by Loreau, Michel

“…Functional redundancy has often been assumed as an intuitive null hypothesis in biodiversity experiments, but theory based on the classical Lotka-Volterra…”
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The strength of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship depends on spatial scale by Thompson, Patrick L, Isbell, Forest, Loreau, Michel, O'Connor, Mary I, Gonzalez, Andrew

“…Our understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) applies mainly to fine spatial scales. New research is required if…”
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Diversity spurs diversification in ecological communities by Calcagno, Vincent, Jarne, Philippe, Loreau, Michel, Mouquet, Nicolas, David, Patrice

“…Diversity is a fundamental, yet threatened, property of ecological systems. The idea that diversity can itself favour diversification, in an autocatalytic…”
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Metacommunity theory explains the emergence of food web complexity by Pillai, Pradeep, Gonzalez, Andrew, Loreau, Michel

“…Food webs are highly complex ecological networks, dynamic in both space and time. Metacommunity models are now at the core of unified theories of biodiversity,…”
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Niche construction in the light of niche theory by Kylafis, Grigoris, Loreau, Michel

“…Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 82-90 ABSTRACT: Ecological niche construction, the process whereby an organism improves its environment to enhance its growth and…”
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Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research by Gonzalez, Andrew, Germain, Rachel M., Srivastava, Diane S., Filotas, Elise, Dee, Laura E., Gravel, Dominique, Thompson, Patrick L., Isbell, Forest, Wang, Shaopeng, Kéfi, Sonia, Montoya, Jose, Zelnik, Yuval R., Loreau, Michel, Brose, Ulrich

“…A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily focused on small scales. We review the current theory and…”
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How ecological feedbacks between human population and land cover influence sustainability by Henderson, Kirsten, Loreau, Michel

“…It is estimated that the Earth's biocapacity is unable to meet current demands, which begs the question: is a sustainable future possible for both humans and…”
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Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales by Isbell, Forest, Gonzalez, Andrew, Loreau, Michel, Cowles, Jane, Díaz, Sandra, Hector, Andy, Mace, Georgina M., Wardle, David A., O'Connor, Mary I., Duffy, J. Emmett, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Thompson, Patrick L., Larigauderie, Anne

“…Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in…”
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Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta‐analysis by Barragan‐Jason, Gladys, de Mazancourt, Claire, Parmesan, Camille, Singer, Michael C., Loreau, Michel

“…Internationally agreed sustainability goals are being missed. Here, we conduct global meta‐analyses to assess how the extent to which humans see themselves as…”
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Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places by Isbell, Forest, Cowles, Jane, Dee, Laura E., Loreau, Michel, Reich, Peter B., Gonzalez, Andrew, Hector, Andy, Schmid, Bernhard, Fukami, Tadashi

“…Biodiversity loss decreases ecosystem functioning at the local scales at which species interact, but it remains unclear how biodiversity loss affects ecosystem…”
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