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EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLE... 2001 2026 2009 2017 5.5k
  1. EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE (2005)
    David U. Hooper, F. Stuart Chapin et al. Ecological Monographs
  2. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity (2012)
    Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy et al. Nature
  3. Ecological Linkages Between Aboveground and Belowground Biota (2004)
    David A. Wardle, Richard D. Bardgett et al. Science
  4. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges (2001)
    Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem et al. Science
  5. Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward (2012)
    Daniel Simberloff, Jean‐Louis Martin et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  6. Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems (2008)
    Jason M. Tylianakis, Raphaël K. Didham et al. Ecology Letters
  7. Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges (2013)
    Wim H. van der Putten, Richard D. Bardgett et al. Journal of Ecology
  8. Communities and Ecosystems: Linking the Aboveground and Belowground Components (2002)
    David A. Wardle Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
  9. Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest (2013)
    Karina E. Clemmensen, Adam Bahr et al. Science
  10. A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBON AND NITROGEN LEVELS IN SOIL (1992)
    David A. Wardle Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  11. The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development (2010)
    Lawrence R. Walker, David A. Wardle et al. Journal of Ecology
  12. HERBIVORE-MEDIATED LINKAGES BETWEEN ABOVEGROUND AND BELOWGROUND COMMUNITIES (2003)
    Richard D. Bardgett, David A. Wardle Ecology
  13. Ecosystem Properties and Forest Decline in Contrasting Long-Term Chronosequences (2004)
    David A. Wardle, Lawrence R. Walker et al. Science
  14. Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits (2010)
    Francesco de Bello, Sandra Lavorel et al. Biodiversity and Conservation
  15. Understory vegetation as a forest ecosystem driver: evidence from the northern Swedish boreal forest (2005)
    Marie‐Charlotte Nilsson, David A. Wardle Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  16. A critique of the microbial metabolic quotient (qCO2) as a bioindicator of disturbance and ecosystem development (1995)
    David A. Wardle, A. Ghani Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  17. Interactions between Aboveground and Belowground Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Feedbacks (2000)
    David U. Hooper, David E. Bignell et al. BioScience
  18. Linking above-ground and below-ground interactions: how plant responses to foliar herbivory influence soil organisms (1998)
    Richard D. Bardgett, David A. Wardle et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  19. Biodiversity and Plant Litter: Experimental Evidence Which Does Not Support the View That Enhanced Species Richness Improves Ecosystem Function (1997)
    David A. Wardle, Karen I. Bonner et al. Oikos
  20. Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change (2013)
    Maja K. Sundqvist, Nathan J. Sanders et al. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  21. Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus (2008)
    David A. Wardle, Marie‐Charlotte Nilsson et al. Science
  22. The influence of biotic interactions on soil biodiversity (2006)
    David A. Wardle Ecology Letters
  23. Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales (2017)
    Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez et al. Nature
  24. Carbon sequestration is related to mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during long‐term succession in boreal forests (2014)
    Karina E. Clemmensen, Roger D. Finlay et al. New Phytologist
  25. Aboveground-Belowground Linkages: Biotic Interactions, Ecosystem Processes, and Global Change (2010)
    Richard D. Bardgett, David A. Wardle Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)
  26. Linking litter decomposition of above‐ and below‐ground organs to plant–soil feedbacks worldwide (2013)
    Grégoire T. Freschet, William K. Cornwell et al. Journal of Ecology
  27. The ratio of Gram-positive to Gram-negative bacterial PLFA markers as an indicator of carbon availability in organic soils (2018)
    Nicolas Fanin, Paul Kardol et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  28. Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands (2017)
    François P. Teste, Paul Kardol et al. Science
  29. Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems (2019)
    Francisco I. Pugnaire, José A. Morillo et al. Science Advances
  30. Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity (2020)
    Evgenios Agathokleous, Zhaozhong Feng et al. Science Advances
  31. Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies (2020)
    Ludovic Henneron, Paul Kardol et al. New Phytologist

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David A. Wardle 24743 22453 14837 16548 400 59.6k
Harold A. Mooney 20417 20517 10477 16601 329 64.0k
Richard D. Bardgett 13421 22251 9382 19804 341 53.8k
Peter M. Vitousek 23132 29702 10692 18540 343 79.9k
David Tilman 47463 43714 28388 25822 292 119.4k
Bernhard Schmid 19973 12199 12896 10983 478 38.8k
F. Stuart Chapin 28994 32457 15424 20745 485 96.2k
Peter B. Reich 48298 24526 21726 35297 753 96.3k
Robert B. Jackson 15591 22240 5595 16792 434 80.3k
Sandra Lavorel 26082 15002 13755 9759 301 45.9k
Josep Peñuelas 17184 28185 10359 29382 1.4k 82.5k

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