Negative biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in broad but not in narrow functions within pitcher plant microbial communities
Catalina Cuellar‐Gempeler, José Alejandro Bravo, Eric Malekos, Dan Perez-Sornia, Marissa Monaco, Sandrine Grandmont-Lemire, Megan Teigen
The paper examines how bacterial diversity affects ecosystem function in pitcher plant communities, finding a negative relationship for broad functions but positive or neutral for narrow ones.
bioRxiv · Jul 11, 2025 · PreprintEcology