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TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent advances in understanding grasslands [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
AU - Stevens, C.J.
PY - 2018/8/30
Y1 - 2018/8/30
N2 - Grasslands are a vitally important ecosystem, supporting a wide range of ecosystem services and high levels of biodiversity. As a consequence, they have long been a focus for ecologists, playing host to some of the world’s longest-running ecological experiments and providing the inspiration for many long-standing theories and debates. Because the field of grassland ecology is broad, encompassing many areas of ecology, this article picks some areas of particular debate and development to look at recent advances. The areas include relationships between diversity and productivity, ecosystem stability and ecosystem service provision, global change threats from nutrient addition, invasive species, climate change, and plant soil interactions. © 2018 Stevens CJ.
AB - Grasslands are a vitally important ecosystem, supporting a wide range of ecosystem services and high levels of biodiversity. As a consequence, they have long been a focus for ecologists, playing host to some of the world’s longest-running ecological experiments and providing the inspiration for many long-standing theories and debates. Because the field of grassland ecology is broad, encompassing many areas of ecology, this article picks some areas of particular debate and development to look at recent advances. The areas include relationships between diversity and productivity, ecosystem stability and ecosystem service provision, global change threats from nutrient addition, invasive species, climate change, and plant soil interactions. © 2018 Stevens CJ.
KW - Climate change
KW - Diversity
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Ecosystem stability
KW - Grassland ecology
KW - Invasive species
KW - Nutrient addition
KW - Plant-soil interactions
KW - biodiversity
KW - climate change
KW - ecologist
KW - ecology
KW - global change
KW - grassland
KW - human
KW - invasive species
KW - nonhuman
KW - nutrient
KW - productivity
KW - review
KW - running
KW - soil
U2 - 10.12688/f1000research.15050.1)
DO - 10.12688/f1000research.15050.1)
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
JO - F1000Research
JF - F1000Research
SN - 2046-1402
M1 - 1363
ER -