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Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

A common but untested expectation is that nutrient enrichment causes biotic homogenization. However, a globally standardized nutrient addition experiment in grasslands shows proportionally similar species loss across scales and no biotic homogenization after up to 14 years of treatment.

Qingqing Chen
Shane A. Blowes
Jonathan M. Chase
ResearchOpen Access27 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-8
Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

Remotely sensed NDVI data and contemporary field data from 84 grasslands on 6 continents show increasing divergence in aboveground plant biomass between sites in different bioclimatic regions.

Andrew S. MacDougall
Ellen Esch
Eric W. Seabloom
Research05 Aug 2024
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 8, P: 1877-1888
Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

The insurance hypothesis posits that more diverse communities are more stable through time. Here, the authors show that plant biodiversity reduces the spatial variability of productivity in grassland communities, demonstrating that the insurance hypothesis applies also across space.

Pedro Daleo
Juan Alberti
Yann Hautier
ResearchOpen Access31 Mar 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

Accurate understanding of plant litter decomposition is vital to inform Earth system modelling. Here the dominant hierarchical model for plant litter decomposition is found to be wanting, and revisions are suggested.

Mark A. Bradford
G. F. (Ciska) Veen
Wim H. van der Putten
Research13 Nov 2017
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 1, P: 1836-1845
The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

Soil carbon content is positively related with plant diversity in global grasslands, and this relationship is particularly strong in warm and arid climates. Plant diversity is related to soil carbon via the quality of organic matter.

Marie Spohn
Sumanta Bagchi
Laura Yahdjian
ResearchOpen Access19 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-10
Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

Andrew S. MacDougall
Ellen Esch
Eric W. Seabloom
Amendments and Corrections19 Aug 2024
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 8, P: 2003
Protists as catalyzers of microbial litter breakdown and carbon cycling at different temperature regimes

Stefan Geisen
Shunran Hu
G. F. (Ciska) Veen
Research01 Oct 2020
The ISME Journal

Volume: 15, P: 618-621
Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory

In a global grassland dataset, large mammalian herbivores rescued forb cover and diversity from the negative effects of eutrophication.

Rebecca A. Nelson
Lauren L. Sullivan
Susan P. Harrison
ResearchOpen Access15 Mar 2025
Communications Biology

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

A study using data from grasslands on six continents finds unimodal relationships between plant biomass and abiotic ecosystem characteristics and also shows that soil nitrogen and plant diversity interact in their relationships with plant biomass.

Marie Spohn
Sumanta Bagchi
Eric W. Seabloom
ResearchOpen Access21 Jan 2025
Communications Biology

Volume: 8, P: 1-11
Farming practices to enhance biodiversity across biomes: a systematic review

Felipe Cozim-Melges
Raimon Ripoll-Bosch
Hannah H. E. van Zanten
ReviewsOpen Access09 Jan 2024
npj Biodiversity

Volume: 3, P: 1-11
Microbial storage and its implications for soil ecology

Kyle Mason-Jones
Serina L. Robinson
Wim H. van der Putten
Reviews30 Sept 2021
The ISME Journal

Volume: 16, P: 617-629

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