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  1. Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning through niche theory

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Andy Hector, Forest Isbell

  2. Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity

    Article • Ecology, August 2016, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  3. Disentangling relationships between plant diversity and decomposition processes under forest restoration

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, July 2016, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  4. Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines

    Article • Nature, December 2015, Nature

    Forest Isbell

  5. Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Article • Nature, October 2015, Nature

    Dr Akira S Mori, Dr Dylan J Craven, Forest Isbell

  6. Productivity depends more on the rate than the frequency of N addition in a temperate grassland

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2015, Nature

    Forest Isbell

  7. Spatial convergent cross mapping to detect causal relationships from short time series

    Article • Ecology, May 2015, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  8. Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2015, Nature

    Forest Isbell

  9. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

    Article • Science, April 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Forest Isbell

  10. Agroecology: Agroecosystem diversification

    Article • Nature Plants, March 2015, Nature

    Forest Isbell

  11. Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies

    Article • Functional Ecology, March 2015, Wiley

    Forest Isbell, Pedro Flombaum

  12. Multifunctionality does not imply that all functions are positively correlated

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Forest Isbell

  13. The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2014, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  14. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

    Article • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, November 2014, Annual Reviews

    Forest Isbell

  15. Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2014, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  16. Sustainability of Human Ecological Niche Construction

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2014, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Forest Isbell

  17. Human impacts on minimum subsets of species critical for maintaining ecosystem structure

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, December 2013, Elsevier

    Forest Isbell

  18. Is community persistence related to diversity? A test with prairie species in a long-term experiment

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, May 2013, Elsevier

    Forest Isbell

  19. Plant functional traits improve diversity-based predictions of temporal stability of grassland productivity

    Article • Oikos, March 2013, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  20. Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

    Article • Ecology Letters, February 2013, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  21. Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment

    Article • Ecology Letters, January 2013, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  22. Decomposer diversity and identity influence plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning

    Article • Ecology, October 2012, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  23. Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Forest Isbell

  24. Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

    Article • Science, May 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Forest Isbell

  25. High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

    Article • Nature, August 2011, Nature

    Forest Isbell

  26. Rapid biodiversity declines in both ungrazed and intensely grazed exotic grasslands

    Article • Plant Ecology, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Forest Isbell

  27. Increasing native, but not exotic, biodiversity increases aboveground productivity in ungrazed and intensely grazed grasslands

    Article • Oecologia, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Forest Isbell

  28. Species interaction mechanisms maintain grassland plant species diversity

    Article • Ecology, July 2009, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  29. Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

    Article • Ecology Letters, May 2009, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  30. Biodiversity maintenance mechanisms differ between native and novel exotic-dominated communities

    Article • Ecology Letters, May 2009, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  31. Diversity–productivity relationships in two ecologically realistic rarity–extinction scenarios

    Article • Oikos, July 2008, Wiley

    Forest Isbell

  32. Ecosystem Services

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Forest Isbell