Does grazing affect plant diversity and productivity in South American mountainous grasslands similarly to temperate grasslands? Our meta-analysis, led by my PhD student Ana Patricia Sandoval, reveals both similarities and key differences.
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And today, I spent a great day with Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍, Eileen Enderle, Yann Hautier, Katie Barry and Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾. We spent time at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, the #BioCliVe experiment, and had a nice lunch seminar. Also had really stimulating discussions in the Botanical garden. Awesome day!

I’ve been back in the Netherlands for 5 years but today I finally - FINALLY - visited Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development and the BIOCLIVE experiment! It was a lovely day with lots of nice discussions, with Yann Hautier Katie Barry Dr. Benjamin Delory 🌍🌳🌱🍄 Eileen Enderle

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Towards mechanistic integration of the causes and consequences of biodiversity
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Happy to share this new paper in which we dig into the links between the mechanisms of coexistence, biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships (BEF), and biodiversity–ecosystem functional stability relationships (BEFS).
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Excited to share the findings from a fantastic study led by my talented PhD student, Xiangyun Li, under my guidance. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

New paper published in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

It is amazing to have this research work done with the support of all of my great collaborators. Grateful!

With increasing levels of cumulative N, net diversity effect became stronger, driven by a shift from complementarity to selection effects.

Overall N-enrichment decreased complementarity and increased selection effect, leading to no overall effect of N-enrichment on net diversity effects. However, things became more complicated and non-linear when looking at cumulative N-enrichment over time.

Miao He assembled a massive biomass data set from 15 experiments that manipulate species richness and nitrogen enrichment and calculated net, complementarity and selection effects of diversity to test how cumulative nitrogen enrichment over time affected overiyelding.

Thrilled to share the findings from a groundbreaking study led by my talented MSc student, Miao He , now PhD student with one of my top collaborator Forest Isbell. This is again the result of a fantastic collaboration. nature.com/articles/s4200…

This work was done in close collaboration and guidance from Yann Hautier Katie Barry Nathaly Guerrero Ramírez, Prof. Peter Reich, my PhD advisor Prof. Enrong Yan, and great support from all the other great collaborators (>40). Thank you all for everything!!!

Yann Hautier Katie Barry Nathaly Guerrero Ramírez Using data from 65 grassland and forest biodiversity experiments, we show that the temporal strength of diversity effects at the community scale is underpinned by temporal changes in the species overyielding with different economic strategies.

Thrilled that my 100th publication has found its home as a senior author in the prestigious Nature Communications! This is the result of a fantastic collaboration with Li-Ting Zheng, Kathryn Barry and a stellar team of collaborators spanning the globe. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy to share our first global effort to quantify the impact of extreme drought on biomass production, #DroughtNet led by Melinda Smith at CSU.

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I am sharing this new paper freshly published in STOTEN showing that the combined impact of global changes on grassland stability increases as the number of global changes increases.

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We are thrilled to announce the publication of our latest research paper in Journal of Applied Ecology, exploring grazing effects on stability at multiple scales in both PURE grasslands and shrub-encroached grasslands. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2….

Very happy that the first PhD paper by Karl Andraczek is out: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…. Karl's PhD focuses on the reciprocality of relationships between plant diversity and biomass production, and this first paper focuses on how biomass affects species richness.

Eskelinen et al. show that nutrient addition decreases grassland seed bank diversity, increases seed bank similarity to aboveground communities, and interacts with aboveground herbivory to affect their abundance.

Anu Eskelinen Lauren Sullivan University of Oulu
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Currently doing fieldwork in one of the prettier places I've worked, on the Stoderzinken Alp. Results to follow! Special thanks to HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein for their collaboration in setting up and planning the site, as well as the local farmers guild and game warden for their support! Uni Graz/University of Graz