Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

Nature

Volumn 508, Issue 7497, 2014, Pages 521-525

  Hautier, Yann ^a,b   Seabloom, Eric W ^a   Borer, Elizabeth T ^a   Adler, Peter B ^c   Harpole, W Stanley ^d   Hillebrand, Helmut ^e   Lind, Eric M ^a   MacDougall, Andrew S ^f   Stevens, Carly J ^g   Bakker, Jonathan D ^h   Buckley, Yvonne M ^i,j   Chu, Chengjin ^k   Collins, Scott L ^l   Daleo, Pedro ^m   Damschen, Ellen I ⁿ   Davies, Kendi F ^o   Fay, Philip A ^p   Firn, Jennifer ^q   Gruner, Daniel S ^r   Jin, Virginia L ^s   Klein, Julia A ^t   Knops, Johannes M H ^u   La Pierre, Kimberly J ^v   Li, Wei ^w   McCulley, Rebecca L ^x   Melbourne, Brett A ^o   Moore, Joslin L ^y,z   O'Halloran, Lydia R ^aa   Prober, Suzanne M ^ab   Risch, Anita C ^ac   Sankaran, Mahesh ^ad,ae   Schuetz, Martin ^ac   Hector, Andy ^af   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^g LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^j TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^k LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^m UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^p Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory   (United States)

^q QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^r Bldg 142   (United States)

^s USDA Agricultural Research Service Lincoln Nebraska   (United States)

^t Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^w SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^x UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^z MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^aa OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab CSIRO   (Australia)

^ac SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^ae TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^af UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPENSATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABILIZATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FERTILIZATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; EUTROPHICATION; FERTILIZERS; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POACEAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899586390     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13014     Document Type: Article

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