General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

Hector, Andy; Hautier, Yann; Saner, Philippe; Wacker, L.; Bagchi, Robert; Joshi, Jasmin; Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael; Spehn, Eva; Bazeley‐White, E.; Weilenmann, M.; C. Caldeira, Maria; G. Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis; A. Finn, John; Huss‐Danell, Kerstin; Jumpponen, Ari; P. H. Mulder, Christa; Palmborg, Cecilia; S. Pereira, J.; S. D. Siamantziouras, A.; C. Terry, A.; Y. Troumbis, Andreas; Schmid, Bernhard; Loreau, Michel

doi:10.1890/09-1162.1

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General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

Published in Ecology • Jul 21, 2010

Authors:

Andy Hector

Yann Hautier

Philippe Saner

Abstract

Insurance effects of biodiversity can stabilize the functioning of multispecies ecosystems against environmental variability when differential species' responses lead to asynchronous population dynamics. When responses are not perfectly positively correlated, declines in some populations are compens...

Subject

Ecology

Biodiversity

Asynchrony (computer programming)

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