Ecosystem context illuminates conflicting roles of plant diversity in carbon storage

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 21; no. 11; pp. 1604 - 1619
• Main Authors: Carol Adair, E., Hooper, David U., Paquette, Alain, Hungate, Bruce A., Fukami, Tadashi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biotic factors; Carbon sequestration; community‐weighted mean; Ecological monitoring; Ecosystem assessment; ecosystem functioning; ecosystem services; Ecosystems; functional diversity; functional traits; Herbivores; interactive factors; phylogenetic diversity; Plant diversity; Plant production; Pools; species richness; state factors; Trees; functional diversity; interactive factors; species richness; biodiversity; ecosystem functioning; functional traits; phylogenetic diversity; community-weighted mean; ecosystem services; state factors

Plant diversity can increase biomass production in plot‐scale studies, but applying these results to ecosystem carbon (C) storage at larger spatial and temporal scales remains problematic. Other ecosystem controls interact with diversity and plant production, and may influence soil pools differently...