Process strengths determine the forms of the relationship between plant species richness and primary productivity.

ABSTRACT: The current rates of biodiversity loss have exceeded the rates observed during the earth's major extinction events, which spurs the studies of the ecological relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions, stability, and services to determine the consequences of biodiversity loss. Plant species richness-productivity relationship (SRPR) is crucial to the understanding of these relationships in plants. Most ecologists have reached a widespread consensus that the loss of plant diversity undoubtedly impairs ecosystem functions, and have proposed many processes to explain the SRPR. However, none of the available studies has satisfactorily described the forms and mechanisms clarifying the SRPR. Observed results of the SRPR forms are inconsistent, and studies have long debated the eco

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5687741 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature