Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Dual mechanisms regulate ecosystem stability under decade-long warming and hay harvest

  • Zheng Shi,
  • Xia Xu,
  • Lara Souza,
  • Kevin Wilcox,
  • Lifen Jiang,
  • Junyi Liang,
  • Jianyang Xia,
  • Pablo García-Palacios,
  • Yiqi Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11973
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Species diversity is thought to play an important role in maintaining production stability. Shi et al.demonstrate that the dominant C4 plant also makes a substantial contribution to temporal stability in a grassland ecosystem subject to 15 years of experimental warming and hay harvest.