Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments have established generally positive species richness-productivity relationships in plots of single ecosystem types. Here, we analyzed effects of landscape-level diversity, measured as the number of land-cover types (different ecosystems) per 250 × 250 m, across all of North America. We find that this metric is positively related to landscape-wide remotely-sensed primary production, and that a higher number of land-cover types also is associated with greater temporal stability of productivity, and with accelerated 20-year greening trends, in particular at high latitudes. Species diversity was correlated with landscape-level productivity, but the effect of species diversity and landscape diversity were independent. This indicates that diversity-functioning patterns resembling the ones at smaller scales also exist at higher levels of biological organization.
Mayor, S., Altermatt, F., Crowther, T. W., Hordijk, I., Landauer, S., Oehri, J., Chacko, M. R., Schaepman, M. E., Schmid, B. & Niklaus, P. A., 16 Jan 2025, In: Communications Earth & Environment.6, 1, 9 p., 28.
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Mayor, S., Altermatt, F., Crowther, T. W., Hordijk, I., Landauer, S., Oehri, J., Chacko, M. R., Schaepman, M. E., Schmid, B. & Niklaus, P. A., 5 Sept 2024
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Mayor, S. (Creator), Altermatt, F. (Creator), Crowther, T. W. (Creator), Hordijk, I. (Creator), Landauer, S. (Creator), Oehri, J. (Creator), Reji Chacko, M. (Creator), Schaepman, M. E. (Creator), Schmid, B. (Creator), Niklaus, P. A. (Creator) (5 Sept 2024). Landscape diversity is correlated with satellite-sensed primary productivity in North America. University of Zurich. 10.5061/dryad.v41ns1s3p