The relationships between biodiversity and community population stability show connections between basic ecosystem structures and functions. These are some of the classic concerns of environmental and ecological research. Previous studies have revealed plant biodiversity and community stability are positively related at a local sampling-site scale. 阅读更多有关 Zhouyuan published his analysis on North American birds in Functional Ecology, congratulations!

Livestock grazing is a major driver shaping the biodiversity, functioning, and stability of local grassland communities. Whether grazing impacts on these variables are scale-dependent remains unclear. Here, we conducted a sheep-grazing experiment in a temperate grassland to test grazing effects on the temporal stability of productivity across scales. We found that grazing increased species stability, but substantially decreased local community stability due to reduced asynchronous dynamics among species within communities. 阅读更多有关 Maowei published his analyses on a grazing experiment in Ecology Letters, congratulations!