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      Complementary effects of species and genetic diversity on productivity and stability of sown grasslands

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          Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment.

          D Tilman, P B Reich, J Knops … (2001)
          Plant diversity and niche complementarity had progressively stronger effects on ecosystem functioning during a 7-year experiment, with 16-species plots attaining 2.7 times greater biomass than monocultures. Diversity effects were neither transients nor explained solely by a few productive or unviable species. Rather, many higher-diversity plots outperformed the best monoculture. These results help resolve debate over biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, show effects at higher than expected diversity levels, and demonstrate, for these ecosystems, that even the best-chosen monocultures cannot achieve greater productivity or carbon stores than higher-diversity sites.
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            Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems

            David Tilman, David Wedin, Johannes Knops (1996)
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              Ecological consequences of genetic diversity.

              A Randall Hughes, Brian Inouye, Marc Johnson … (2008)
              Understanding the ecological consequences of biodiversity is a fundamental challenge. Research on a key component of biodiversity, genetic diversity, has traditionally focused on its importance in evolutionary processes, but classical studies in evolutionary biology, agronomy and conservation biology indicate that genetic diversity might also have important ecological effects. Our review of the literature reveals significant effects of genetic diversity on ecological processes such as primary productivity, population recovery from disturbance, interspecific competition, community structure, and fluxes of energy and nutrients. Thus, genetic diversity can have important ecological consequences at the population, community and ecosystem levels, and in some cases the effects are comparable in magnitude to the effects of species diversity. However, it is not clear how widely these results apply in nature, as studies to date have been biased towards manipulations of plant clonal diversity, and little is known about the relative importance of genetic diversity vs. other factors that influence ecological processes of interest. Future studies should focus not only on documenting the presence of genetic diversity effects but also on identifying underlying mechanisms and predicting when such effects are likely to occur in nature.
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                Title: Nature Plants
                Abbreviated Title: NPLANTS
                Publisher: Springer Nature
                ISSN (Electronic): 2055-0278
                Publication date Created: March 30 2015
                Publication date (Print): March 30 2015
                Volume: 1
                Issue: 4
                Page: 15033
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                DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.33
                PubMed ID: 27247033
                SO-VID: c19f60c9-54b2-480d-b1a2-a63122e07bc9
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