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Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivoryDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:10394-7. 2012....
Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input high-diversity grassland biomassDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Science 314:1598-600. 2006..32 megagram hectare(-1) year(-1)). Moreover, LIHD biofuels can be produced on agriculturally degraded lands and thus need to neither displace food production nor cause loss of biodiversity via habitat destruction...- Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experimentDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 441:629-32. 2006..Our results indicate that the reliable, efficient and sustainable supply of some foods (for example, livestock fodder), biofuels and ecosystem services can be enhanced by the use of biodiversity... 
Diversification, biotic interchange, and the universal trade-off hypothesisDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Am Nat 178:355-71. 2011..The existence of transrealm trade-offs, should further work support this possibility, has deep implications for ecology and evolution...- Niche tradeoffs, neutrality, and community structure: a stochastic theory of resource competition, invasion, and community assemblyDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:10854-61. 2004..This prediction provides a potential solution to the invasion paradox, which is the tendency for highly diverse regions to be more heavily invaded... - Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agricultureDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:20260-4. 2011..Efficient management practices could substantially lower nitrogen use. Attainment of high yields on existing croplands of underyielding nations is of great importance if global crop demand is to be met with minimal environmental impacts... - Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practicesDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 418:671-7. 2002..New incentives and policies for ensuring the sustainability of agriculture and ecosystem services will be crucial if we are to meet the demands of improving yields without compromising environmental integrity or public health... - Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experimentD Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Science 294:843-5. 2001.... - Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen depositionP B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 410:809-12. 2001..We found that the enhanced biomass accumulation in response to elevated levels of CO2 or nitrogen, or their combination, is less in species-poor than in species-rich assemblages... - Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental changeD Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Science 292:281-4. 2001..Significant scientific advances and regulatory, technological, and policy changes are needed to control the environmental impacts of agricultural expansion... - Community assembly and invasion: an experimental test of neutral versus niche processesJoseph Fargione
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:8916-20. 2003..This simple mechanism of greater competitive inhibition of invaders that are similar to established abundant species could, in theory, explain many of the patterns observed in plant communities... - Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslandsChristopher M Clark
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 451:712-5. 2008..A second experiment showed that a decade after cessation of nitrogen addition, relative plant species number, although not species abundances, had recovered, demonstrating that some effects of nitrogen addition are reversible... - Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasolineJason Hill
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:2077-82. 2009..These advantages are critically dependent on the source of land used to produce biomass for biofuels, on the magnitude of any indirect land use that may result, and on other as yet unmeasured environmental impacts of biofuels... - Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuelsJason Hill
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:11206-10. 2006.... - Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2Peter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 440:922-5. 2006.... - Niche differences in phenology and rooting depth promote coexistence with a dominant C4 bunchgrassJoseph Fargione
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Oecologia 143:598-606. 2005..This work provides novel empirical evidence for the factors that contribute to species coexistence in the field. Our study suggests that spatial and temporal niche differentiation promote species coexistence in these grasslands... - Species and functional group diversity independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to CO2 and NPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:10101-6. 2004..These results indicate that S and F independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to elevated CO(2) and N... - Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasionTheodore A Kennedy
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 417:636-8. 2002..These results suggest that local biodiversity represents an important line of defence against the spread of invaders... - Resource use patterns predict long-term outcomes of plant competition for nutrients and lightRay Dybzinski
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Am Nat 170:305-18. 2007.... - Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity-productivity relationship in an N-limited grasslandD A Fornara
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecology 90:408-18. 2009.... - Human-caused environmental change: impacts on plant diversity and evolutionD Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:5433-40. 2001.... - From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experimentJoseph Fargione
Department of Ecology, University of Minnesota, St Paul 55108, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:871-6. 2007.... - Soil fertility increases with plant species diversity in a long-term biodiversity experimentRay Dybzinski
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
Oecologia 158:85-93. 2008..Our results suggest a mechanism, the fertility effect, by which increased plant species diversity may increase community productivity over time by increasing the supply of nutrients via both greater inputs and greater retention... - Causes, consequences and ethics of biodiversityD Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul 55108, USA
Nature 405:208-11. 2000..Societal responses to the loss of biodiversity also involve trade-offs, and the elaboration of these will be essential in developing wiser environmental ethics and policy... - Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimensionW Stanley Harpole
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California 92697, USA
Nature 446:791-3. 2007..Our results provide an alternative mechanistic explanation for the effects of nutrient eutrophication on the diversity of terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems... - Land clearing and the biofuel carbon debtJoseph Fargione
The Nature Conservancy, 1101 West River Parkway, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA
Science 319:1235-8. 2008..In contrast, biofuels made from waste biomass or from biomass grown on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands planted with perennials incur little or no carbon debt and can offer immediate and sustained GHG advantages... - Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioningJustin P Wright
Ecol Lett 9:111-20. 2006..These results suggest that we need a more nuanced understanding of how the diversity of functional traits of species in an assemblage affects ecosystem functioning... - Non-neutral patterns of species abundance in grassland communitiesW Stanley Harpole
Ecol Lett 9:15-23. 2006..Additionally, we found that changes in relative abundance after environmental change (N-addition or disturbance) were not neutral but also were significantly associated with R*... - Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland speciesEric W Seabloom
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:13384-9. 2003..If our results prove to be general, it may be feasible to restore native California grassland flora to at least parts of its former range... - Biodiversity loss threatens human well-beingSandra Diaz
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal CONICET UNC and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
PLoS Biol 4:e277. 2006 - Resource availability controls fungal diversity across a plant diversity gradientMark P Waldrop
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1115, USA
Ecol Lett 9:1127-35. 2006.... - Biography of David TilmanTinsley H Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:10851-3. 2004