The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic
M. Jochum, M. Fischer, F. Isbell, C. Roscher, F. van der Plas, S. Boch, G. Boenisch, N. Buchmann, J. A. Catford, J. Cavender-Bares, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, G. Gleixner, N. Hoelzel, J. Kattge, , P. Manning
This paper compares biodiversity experiments to real-world plant communities and finds that experimental results are robust to the inclusion of unrealistic communities.
bioRxiv · Aug 5, 2019Ecology