학술논문
Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass
Document Type
article
Author
Pedro Daleo; Juan Alberti; Enrique J. Chaneton; Oscar Iribarne; Pedro M. Tognetti; Jonathan D. Bakker; Elizabeth T. Borer; Martín Bruschetti; Andrew S. MacDougall; Jesús Pascual; Mahesh Sankaran; Eric W. Seabloom; Shaopeng Wang; Sumanta Bagchi; Lars A. Brudvig; Jane A. Catford; Chris R. Dickman; Timothy L. Dickson; Ian Donohue; Nico Eisenhauer; Daniel S. Gruner; Sylvia Haider; Anke Jentsch; Johannes M. H. Knops; Ylva Lekberg; Rebecca L. McCulley; Joslin L. Moore; Brent Mortensen; Timothy Ohlert; Meelis Pärtel; Pablo L. Peri; Sally A. Power; Anita C. Risch; Camila Rocca; Nicholas G. Smith; Carly Stevens; Riin Tamme; G. F. (Ciska) Veen; Peter A. Wilfahrt; Yann Hautier
Source
Nature Communications, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2041-1723
Abstract
The insurance hypothesis posits that more diverse communities are more stable through time. Here, the authors show that plant biodiversity reduces the spatial variability of productivity in grassland communities, demonstrating that the insurance hypothesis applies also across space.