Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7574/full/nature15374.html" target="_blank" >http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7574/full/nature15374.html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature15374" target="_blank" >10.1038/nature15374</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes
Original language description
It remains unclear whether biodiversity buffers ecosystems against climate extremes, which are becoming increasingly frequent worldwide(1). Early results suggested that the ecosystem productivity of diverse grassland plant communities was more resistant,changing less during drought, and more resilient, recovering more quickly after drought, than that of depauperate communities(2). However, subsequent experimental tests produced mixed results(3-13). Here we use data from 46 experiments that manipulatedgrassland plant diversity to test whether biodiversity provides resistance during and resilience after climate events. We show that biodiversity increased ecosystem resistance for a broad range of climate events, including wet or dry, moderate or extreme, and brief or prolonged events. Across all studies and climate events, the productivity of low-diversity communities with one or two species changed by approximately 50% during climate events, whereas that of high-diversity communities w
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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