Diversity and stability in plant communities
- 28 March 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 446 (7135), E6-E7
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05749
Abstract
The relationship between species diversity and ecosystem stability is controversial1, 2. Tilman et al.3 analyse biomass patterns over a decade in a grassland experiment with artificial plant communities, and provide evidence for a positive relationship between the number of plant species and the temporal stability of the ecosystem. Here we use data from a long-term biodiversity experiment with plant communities that were not controlled by weeding4 in order to show that diverse systems can be both stable and unstableThis publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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