NCEAS Working Groups
LTER: Scaling-up productivity responses to changes in biodiversity
Project Description
It seems like a simple question. Does biodiversity loss cause productivity loss? Most experiments to test the question are done on small plots. Scaling up to natural ecosystems introduces complications that could tip the balance toward a stronger—or a weaker—relationship. Drawing on data from biodiversity experiments at multiple LTERs and global observational and experimental networks, the Biodiversity and Productivity working group asks what role time scales, spatial scales, type of experiment, and ecosystem type have on the strength of this key relationship.
Principal Investigator(s)
Forest Isbell, Laura E. Dee, Jane Ditmer
Project Dates
Start: April 17, 2017
End: March 1, 2019
completed
Participants
- Meghan L. Avolio
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- Jarrett E. Byrnes
- University of Massachusetts-Boston
- Adam Clark
- German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Laura E. Dee
- University of Minnesota
- Jane Ditmer
- University of Minnesota
- Maria Dornelas
- University of St. Andrews
- Andrew Gonzalez
- McGill University
- Yann Hautier
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Andrew Hector
- University of Zurich
- Forest Isbell
- University of Minnesota
- Kimberly J. Komatsu
- University of California, Berkeley
- Michel Loreau
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Akira Mori
- Yokohama National University
- Tim Newbold
- University College London
- Mary I. O'Connor
- University of British Columbia
- Charlotte Outhwaite
- University College London
- Peter B. Reich
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Eric W. Seabloom
- University of Minnesota
- Melinda D. Smith
- Colorado State University
- Patrick L. Thompson
- University of British Columbia
- Laura Williams
- University of Minnesota
- Alexandra J. Wright
- California State University, Los Angeles
Products
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Journal Article / 2019
When Do Ecosystem Services Depend on Rare Species?
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Journal Article / 2020
Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability
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Journal Article / 2020
Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research
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Journal Article / 2020
General destabilizing effects of eutrophication ongrassland productivity at multiple spatial scales
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Journal Article / 2018
Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places
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Presentations / 2018
Scaling-up productivity responses to changes in biodiversity
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Journal Article / 2022
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people
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Journal Article / 2018
B-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning
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Journal Article / 2021
Biodiversityâproductivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions
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Journal Article / 2021
Grand challenges in biodiversity--ecosystem functioning research in the era of science--policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks
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Journal Article / 2018
The strength of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship depends on spatial scale
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Journal Article / 2021
Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony