Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: disentangling the roles of biomass and effect trait expression
Alice Nadia Ardichvili, Markus Bittlingmaier, Grégoire T. Freschet, Michel Loreau, Jean‐François Arnoldi
The paper disentangles biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning by separating impacts on total biomass and effect trait expression using a novel decomposition framework applied to three ecosystem functions in grassland plants.
bioRxiv · Mar 19, 2026 · PreprintEcology