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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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Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems by Srivastava, Diane S., Cadotte, Marc W., MacDonald, A. Andrew M., Marushia, Robin G., Mirotchnick, Nicholas

“…Phylogenetic diversity (PD) describes the total amount of phylogenetic distance among species in a community. Although there has been substantial research on…”
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Drought sensitivity predicts habitat size sensitivity in an aquatic ecosystem by Amundrud, Sarah L, Srivastava, Diane S

“…Species and trophic richness often increase with habitat size. Although many ecological processes have been evoked to explain both patterns, the environmental…”
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Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity by Cardinale, Bradley J, Wright, Justin P, Cadotte, Marc W, Carroll, Ian T, Hector, Andy, Srivastava, Diane S, Loreau, Michel, Weis, Jerome J

“…Accelerating rates of species extinction have prompted a growing number of researchers to manipulate the richness of various groups of organisms and examine…”
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Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities by Vellend, Mark, Srivastava, Diane S., Anderson, Kathryn M., Brown, Carissa D., Jankowski, Jill E., Kleynhans, Elizabeth J., Kraft, Nathan J. B., Letaw, Alathea D., Macdonald, A. Andrew M., Maclean, Janet E., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Norris, Andrea R., Xue, Xinxin

“…A central current debate in community ecology concerns the relative importance of deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community structure…”
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Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems by Cardinale, Bradley J, Srivastava, Diane S, Emmett Duffy, J, Wright, Justin P, Downing, Amy L, Sankaran, Mahesh, Jouseau, Claire

“…Over the past decade, accelerating rates of species extinction have prompted an increasing number of studies to reduce species diversity experimentally and…”
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Interactive effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning by Pires, Aliny P. F., Srivastava, Diane S., Marino, Nicholas A. C., Macdonald, A. Andrew M., Figueiredo-Barros, Marcos Paulo, Farjalla, Vinicius F.

“…Climate change and biodiversity loss are expected to simultaneously affect ecosystems, however research on how each driver mediates the effect of the other has…”
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Do bromeliads affect the arboreal ant communities on orange trees in northwestern Costa Rica? by Rost-Komiya, Beatrice, Smith, M. Alex, Rogy, Pierre, Srivastava, Diane S

“…Ants often interact with other invertebrates as predators or mutualists. Epiphytic bromeliads provide nesting sites for ants, and could increase ant abundances…”
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Ecological determinism increases with organism size by Farjalla, Vinicius F, Srivastava, Diane S, Marino, Nicholas A. C, Azevedo, Fernanda D, Dib, Viviane, Lopes, Paloma M, Rosado, Alexandre S, Bozelli, Reinaldo L, Esteves, Francisco A

“…After much debate, there is an emerging consensus that the composition of many ecological communities is determined both by species traits, as proposed by…”
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Dominant Species and Diversity: Linking Relative Abundance to Controls of Species Establishment by Gilbert, Benjamin, Turkington, Roy, Srivastava, Diane S.

“…Ecological theories make divergent predictions about whether extant species inhibit or promote the establishment of new species and which aspects of community…”
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Asynchronous recovery of predators and prey conditions resilience to drought in a neotropical ecosystem by Ruiz, Thomas, Carrias, Jean-François, Bonhomme, Camille, Farjalla, Vinicius F., Jassey, Vincent E. J., Leflaive, Joséphine, Compin, Arthur, Leroy, Céline, Corbara, Bruno, Srivastava, Diane S., Céréghino, Régis

“…The predicted increase in the intensity and frequency of drought events associated with global climate change will impose severe hydrological stress to…”
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Dominant predators mediate the impact of habitat size on trophic structure in bromeliad invertebrate communities by Petermann, Jana S, Farjalla, Vinicius F, Jocque, Merlijn, Kratina, Pavel, MacDonald, A. Andrew M, Marino, Nicholas A. C, de Omena, Paula M, Piccoli, Gustavo C. O, Richardson, Michael J, Richardson, Barbara A, Romero, Gustavo Q, Videla, Martin, Srivastava, Diane S

“…Local habitat size has been shown to influence colonization and extinction processes of species in patchy environments. However, species differ in body size,…”
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Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos by Solan, Martin, Cardinale, Bradley J., Downing, Amy L., Katharina A. M. Engelhardt, Ruesink, Jennifer L., Srivastava, Diane S.

“…Rapid changes in biodiversity are occurring globally, yet the ecological impacts of diversity loss are poorly understood. Here we use data from marine…”
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A precipitation gradient drives change in macroinvertebrate composition and interactions within bromeliads by Guzman, Laura Melissa, Vanschoenwinkel, Bram, Farjalla, Vinicius F, Poon, Anita, Srivastava, Diane S

“…Ecological communities change across spatial and environmental gradients due to (i) changes in species composition, (ii) changes in the frequency or strength…”
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Temperate grassland songbird species accumulate incrementally along a gradient of primary productivity by Harrower, William L, Srivastava, Diane S, McCallum, Cindy, Fraser, Lauchlan H, Turkington, Roy

“…Global analyses of bird communities along elevation gradients suggest that bird diversity on arid mountains is primarily limited by water availability, not…”
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Why More Productive Sites Have More Species: An Experimental Test of Theory Using Tree‐Hole Communities by Srivastava, Diane S., Lawton, John H.

“…One of the most common explanations for an increase in species richness with productivity is what we have dubbed the “More Individuals Hypothesis.” According…”
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Predator kairomones change food web structure and function, regardless of cues from consumed prey by Marino, Nicholas A. C, Diane S. Srivastava, Vinicius F. Farjalla

“…Predation risk in aquatic systems is often assessed by prey through chemical cues, either those released by prey or by the predator itself. Many studies on…”
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Niche partitioning at multiple scales facilitates coexistence among mosquito larvae by Gilbert, Benjamin, Srivastava, Diane S., Kirby, Kathryn R.

“…A theoretical dichotomy in community ecology distinguishes between mechanisms that stabilize species coexistence and those that cause neutral drift. Stable…”
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Canopy Trimming Experiment in Puerto Rico: The Response of Litter Invertebrate Communities to Canopy Loss and Debris Deposition in a Tropical Forest Subject to Hurricanes by Richardson, Barbara A, Richardson, Michael J, González, Grizelle, Shiels, Aaron B, Srivastava, Diane S

“…Hurricanes cause canopy removal and deposition of pulses of litter to the forest floor. A Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) was designed to decouple these two…”
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