Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

Nature

Volumn 526, Issue 7574, 2015, Pages 574-577

  Isbell, Forest ^a   Craven, Dylan ^b,c   Connolly, John ^d   Loreau, Michel ^e   Schmid, Bernhard ^f   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^g   Bezemer, T Martijn ^h   Bonin, Catherine ⁱ   Bruelheide, Helge ^b,j   De Luca, Enrica ^f   Ebeling, Anne ^k   Griffin, John N ^l   Guo, Qinfeng ^m   Hautier, Yann ⁿ   Hector, Andy ^o   Jentsch, Anke ^g   Kreyling, Jürgen ^p   Lanta, Vojtêch ^q   Manning, Pete ^r   Meyer, Sebastian T ^s   Mori, Akira S ^t   Naeem, Shahid ^u   Niklaus, Pascal A ^f   Polley, H Wayne ^v   Reich, Peter B ^a,w   Roscher, Christiane ^b,x   Seabloom, Eric W ^a   Smith, Melinda D ^y   Thakur, Madhav P ^b,c   Tilman, David ^a,z   Tracy, Benjamin F ^aa   Van Der Putten, Wim H ^h,ab   Van Ruijven, Jasper ^ab   Weigelt, Alexandra ^b,c   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^s   Wilsey, Brian ⁱ   Eisenhauer, Nico ^b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e Moulis   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^h NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

ⁱ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^k FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^l SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

ⁿ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^s TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^t YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^u Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^v AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^w WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^x HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^y Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aa VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISASTERS; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84945312520     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15374     Document Type: Article

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