Search Results - "SCHMID, BERNHARD"
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Mapping functional diversity from remotely sensed morphological and physiological forest traits
Published in Nature communications (13-11-2017)“…Assessing functional diversity from space can help predict productivity and stability of forest ecosystems at global scale using biodiversity–ecosystem…”
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Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places
Published in Ecology letters (01-06-2018)“…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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Diverse pollinator communities enhance plant reproductive success
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-12-2012)“…Understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is a major goal of ecology. Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem function and…”
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Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (14-10-2016)“…The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on ecosystem functioning…”
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Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change
Published in Ecology letters (01-02-2022)“…Three decades of research have demonstrated that biodiversity can promote the functioning of ecosystems. Yet, it is unclear whether the positive effects of…”
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Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes
Published in Nature (London) (22-10-2015)“…Data from experiments that manipulated grassland biodiversity across Europe and North America show that biodiversity increases an ecosystem’s resistance to,…”
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Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-08-2018)“…Forest ecosystems are an integral component of the global carbon cycle as they take up and release large amounts of C over short time periods (C flux) or…”
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Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity–soil multifunctionality relationships
Published in Nature communications (09-09-2021)“…Relationships between biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions (that is, ecosystem multifunctionality) are context-dependent. Both plant and soil…”
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Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects
Published in Nature (London) (06-11-2014)“…Here, new ecological communities are established using plants from mixed-species communities or monocultures; ecosystem functioning and morphological trait…”
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Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-10-2018)“…Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests,…”
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Terrestrial land-cover type richness is positively linked to landscape-level functioning
Published in Nature communications (09-01-2020)“…Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments have shown that local species richness promotes ecosystem functioning and stability. Whether this also…”
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Contribution of epigenetic variation to adaptation in Arabidopsis
Published in Nature communications (25-10-2018)“…In plants, transgenerational inheritance of some epialleles has been demonstrated but it remains controversial whether epigenetic variation is subject to…”
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Using plant functional traits to explain diversity-productivity relationships
Published in PloS one (18-05-2012)“…The different hypotheses proposed to explain positive species richness-productivity relationships, i.e. selection effect and complementarity effect, imply that…”
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Diversity and asynchrony in soil microbial communities stabilizes ecosystem functioning
Published in eLife (23-03-2021)“…Theoretical and empirical advances have revealed the importance of biodiversity for stabilizing ecosystem functions through time. Despite the global…”
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Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies
Published in Nature communications (13-03-2023)“…Decades of theory and empirical studies have demonstrated links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet the putative processes that underlie these…”
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Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests
Published in Nature communications (31-07-2018)“…Human-induced biodiversity change impairs ecosystem functions crucial to human well-being. However, the consequences of this change for ecosystem…”
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High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services
Published in Nature (London) (08-09-2011)“…The more diverse the merrier Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments have shown the importance of a diverse range of species for the health of ecosystems,…”
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Effects of nitrogen deposition on soil microbial communities in temperate and subtropical forests in China
Published in The Science of the total environment (31-12-2017)“…Increasing nitrogen (N) deposition has aroused large concerns because of its potential negative effects on forest ecosystems. Although microorganisms play a…”
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Can niche plasticity promote biodiversity–productivity relationships through increased complementarity?
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-04-2017)“…Most experimental biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research to date has addressed herbaceous plant communities. Comparably little is known about how forest…”
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Drought-exposure history increases complementarity between plant species in response to a subsequent drought
Published in Nature communications (09-06-2022)“…Growing threats from extreme climatic events and biodiversity loss have raised concerns about their interactive consequences for ecosystem functioning…”
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