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Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

Dylan Craven, Forest Isbell, Pete Manning, John Connolly, Helge Bruelheide, Anne Ebeling, Christiane Roscher, Jasper van Ruijven, Alexandra Weigelt, Brian Wilsey, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Enrica de Luca, John Griffin Orcid Logo, Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, Anke Jentsch, Jürgen Kreyling, Vojtech Lanta, Michel Loreau, Sebastian T. Meyer, Akira S. Mori, Shahid Naeem, Cecilia Palmborg, H. Wayne Polley, Peter B. Reich, Bernhard Schmid, Alrun Siebenkäs, Eric Seabloom, Madhav P. Thakur, David Tilman, Anja Vogel, Nico Eisenhauer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume: 371, Issue: 1694, Start page: 20150277

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DOI (Published version): 10.1098/rstb.2015.0277

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Global change drivers are rapidly altering resource availability and biodiversity. While there is consensus that greater biodiversity increases the functioning of ecosystems, the extent to which biodiversity buffers ecosystem productivity in response to changes in resource availability remains uncle...

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ISSN: 0962-8436 1471-2970
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