Climate mediates the biodiversity-ecosystem stability relationship globally.

ABSTRACT: The insurance hypothesis, stating that biodiversity can increase ecosystem stability, has received wide research and political attention. Recent experiments suggest that climate change can impact how plant diversity influences ecosystem stability, but most evidence of the biodiversity-stability relationship obtained to date comes from local studies performed under a limited set of climatic conditions. Here, we investigate how climate mediates the relationships between plant (taxonomical and functional) diversity and ecosystem stability across the globe. To do so, we coupled 14 years of temporal remote sensing measurements of plant biomass with field surveys of diversity in 123 dryland ecosystems from all continents except Antarctica. Across a wide range of climatic and soil conditions, pla

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Palacios P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6099882 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature