TY  - JOUR
AU  - Proulx, Raphaël
AU  - Wirth, Christian
AU  - Voigt, Winfried
AU  - Weigelt, Alexandra
AU  - Roscher, Christiane
AU  - Attinger, Sabine
AU  - Baade, Jussi
AU  - Barnard, Romain L.
AU  - Buchmann, Nina
AU  - Buscot, François
AU  - Eisenhauer, Nico
AU  - Fischer, Markus
AU  - Gleixner, Gerd
AU  - Halle, Stefan
AU  - Hildebrandt, Anke
AU  - Kowalski, Esther
AU  - Kuu, Annely
AU  - Lange, Markus
AU  - Milcu, Alex
AU  - Niklaus, Pascal A.
AU  - Oelmann, Yvonne
AU  - Rosenkranz, Stephan
AU  - Sabais, Alexander
AU  - Scherber, Christoph
AU  - Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael
AU  - Scheu, Stefan
AU  - Schulze, Ernst-Detlef
AU  - Schumacher, Jens
AU  - Schwichtenberg, Guido
AU  - Soussana, Jean-François
AU  - Temperton, Vicky
AU  - Weisser, Wolfgang W.
AU  - Wilcke, Wolfgang
AU  - Schmid, Bernhard
TI  - Diversity Promotes Temporal Stability across Levels of Ecosystem Organization in Experimental Grasslands
JO  - PLoS one
VL  - 5
IS  - 10
SN  - 1932-6203
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
PB  - PLoS
M1  - FZJ-2015-03362
SP  - e13382 -
PY  - 2010
AB  - The diversity–stability hypothesis states that current losses of biodiversity can impair the ability of an ecosystem to dampen the effect of environmental perturbations on its functioning. Using data from a long-term and comprehensive biodiversity experiment, we quantified the temporal stability of 42 variables characterizing twelve ecological functions in managed grassland plots varying in plant species richness. We demonstrate that diversity increases stability i) across trophic levels (producer, consumer), ii) at both the system (community, ecosystem) and the component levels (population, functional group, phylogenetic clade), and iii) primarily for aboveground rather than belowground processes. Temporal synchronization across studied variables was mostly unaffected with increasing species richness. This study provides the strongest empirical support so far that diversity promotes stability across different ecological functions and levels of ecosystem organization in grasslands.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000282869800046
C6  - pmid:20967213
DO  - DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0013382
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201052
ER  -