Plant and soil biodiversity have non-substitutable stabilizing
effects on biomass production
Gaowen Yang1,2*,
Masahiro Ryo1,2,3,4, Julien Roy1,2,
Stefan Hempel1,2, Matthias C.
Rillig1,2
1Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin,
D-14195 Berlin, Germany
2Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity
Research (BBIB), D-14195 Berlin, Germany
3Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
(ZALF), Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
4Environment and Natural Science, Brandenburg
University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), 03046 Cottbus,
Germany
Gaowen Yang,yanggw@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Masahiro Ryo,masahiroryo@gmail.com
Julien Roy,royjulien@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Stefan Hempel,stefan.hempel@fu-berlin.de
Matthias C. Rillig,rillig@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Short running title : Plant and soil biodiversity affect
stability
Keywords : biodiversity loss, community-weighted mean, drought,
dilution-to-extinction approach, ecosystem stability, functional
diversity, multitrophic biodiversity, species asynchrony, temporal
stability
Type of article : Letters
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