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      PLANT DIVERSITY, SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: ARE THERE ANY LINKS?

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      Ecology
      Wiley-Blackwell

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          Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment.

          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

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              The future of biodiversity.

              Recent extinction rates are 100 to 1000 times their pre-human levels in well-known, but taxonomically diverse groups from widely different environments. If all species currently deemed "threatened" become extinct in the next century, then future extinction rates will be 10 times recent rates. Some threatened species will survive the century, but many species not now threatened will succumb. Regions rich in species found only within them (endemics) dominate the global patterns of extinction. Although new technology provides details of habitat losses, estimates of future extinctions are hampered by our limited knowledge of which areas are rich in endemics.
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                Journal
                Ecology
                Ecology
                Wiley-Blackwell
                0012-9658
                August 2003
                August 2003
                : 84
                : 8
                : 2042-2050
                Article
                10.1890/02-0433
                c62eee50-237e-4136-b274-db008d7f5fff
                © 2003

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1

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