Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

J. Emmett Duffy (), Casey M. Godwin and Bradley J. Cardinale
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J. Emmett Duffy: Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Smithsonian Institution
Casey M. Godwin: School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Bradley J. Cardinale: School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan

Nature, 2017, vol. 549, issue 7671, 261-264

Abstract: A synthesis of 67 biodiversity studies shows that, after controlling for environmental covariates, the effects of biodiversity on biomass are stronger in nature than in experiments and are comparable to the effects of other drivers of productivity.

Date: 2017
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