Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

David Tilman (), Peter B. Reich and Johannes M. H. Knops
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David Tilman: University of Minnesota
Peter B. Reich: University of Minnesota
Johannes M. H. Knops: School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska

Nature, 2006, vol. 441, issue 7093, 629-632

Abstract: Where the grass is greener The idea that greater biodiversity increases ecosystem stability has been around for about 50 years, and has been furiously debated for much of that time. There have been precious few rigorous long-term field experiments to test the theory, but a decade-long biodiversity experiment in grassland at the University of Minnesota's Cedar Creek experimental ecological reserve set out to do that. The results are now in and they show that the presence of greater numbers of plant species increases both stability and productivity.

Date: 2006
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