Climate mediates the biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationship globally

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: García Palacios, Pablo, Gross, Nicolás, Gaitan, Juan Jose, Maestre, Fernando Tomás
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biodiversidad; Stability; Estabilidad; NDVI; Rasgos Funcionales de la Planta; Aridez; Riqueza de Especies; Plant Functional Traits; Aridity; Argentina; Pablo; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4807; https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8400; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800425115

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 rela...