Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability in a Decade-Long Grassland Experiment.¶
Tilman, D., Reich, P. B., & Knops, J. M. H. (2006). Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability in a Decade-Long Grassland Experiment. Nature, 441, 629-632.
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Primes¶
- Diversification
- Finance: mean-variance portfolios — allocation across uncorrelated or weakly correlated assets minimises portfolio variance at a given expected return. Ecology: the insurance hypothesis — species and functional diversity stabilises ecosystem productivity under perturbation.
This sourceEmpirical support for the insurance hypothesis that species diversity stabilizes ecosystem productivity under perturbation.
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Prairie experiment: more plant species gave greater stability of productivity under varying climate; functional diversity is untested, so the ecology clause holds in part.
“We found that greater numbers of plant species led to greater temporal stability of ecosystem annual aboveground plant production. In particular, the decadal temporal stability of the ecosystem, whether measured with intervals of two, five or ten years, was significantly greater at higher plant diversity and tended to increase as plots matured.”
- Finance: mean-variance portfolios — allocation across uncorrelated or weakly correlated assets minimises portfolio variance at a given expected return. Ecology: the insurance hypothesis — species and functional diversity stabilises ecosystem productivity under perturbation.
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