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PhD Ecology Michigan State University

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According to Wikipedia, George David Tilman , ForMemRS, is an American ecologist. He is Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota, as well as an instructor in Conservation Biology; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; and Microbial Ecology. He is director of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve long-term ecological research station. Tilman is also a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

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Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices (2002) (6610)
Solutions for a cultivated planet (2011) (5911)
Technical Report: Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Sources and Consequences (1997) (5871)
Resource competition and community structure. (1983) (5797)
Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture (2011) (5200)
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity (2012) (5175)
The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology (2004) (4208)
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges (2001) (4015)
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems (2019) (3969)
Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt (2008) (3934)
Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change (2001) (3641)
Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels. (2006) (2833)
The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes (1997) (2803)
Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. (1999) (2650)
Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems (1996) (2553)
Habitat destruction and the extinction debt (1994) (2530)
Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats (1994) (2512)
Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health (2014) (2179)
Biodiversity and stability in grasslands (1996) (2153)
Diversity and Productivity in a Long-Term Grassland Experiment (2001) (2100)
THE ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGES IN BIODIVERSITY: A SEARCH FOR GENERAL PRINCIPLES101 (1999) (1923)
Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass (2006) (1786)
Challenges in the Quest for Keystones (1996) (1718)
Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment (2006) (1672)
Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma (2009) (1552)
Biodiversity: Population Versus Ecosystem Stability (1995) (1461)
COMMUNITY INVASIBILITY, RECRUITMENT LIMITATION, AND GRASSLAND BIODIVERSITY (1997) (1417)
Spatial ecology : the role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions (1998) (1414)
Niche tradeoffs, neutrality, and community structure: a stochastic theory of resource competition, invasion, and community assembly. (2004) (1388)
Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits (2018) (1388)
Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (MPB-26), Volume 26 (1988) (1336)
High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services (2011) (1257)
Global environmental impacts of agricultural expansion: the need for sustainable and efficient practices. (1999) (1240)
Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: theoretical considerations. (1997) (1238)
Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being (2006) (1221)
Resource Competition between Plankton Algae: An Experimental and Theoretical Approach (1977) (1197)
Biotic Control over the Functioning of Ecosystems (1997) (1116)
PLANT DIVERSITY, SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: ARE THERE ANY LINKS? (2003) (1113)
Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion (2002) (1103)
The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation (2003) (1065)
The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value (2000) (1049)
Secondary Succession and the Pattern of Plant Dominance Along Experimental Nitrogen Gradients (1987) (1027)
Phytoplankton Community Ecology: The Role of Limiting Nutrients (1982) (1019)
The maintenance of species richness in plant communities (1993) (1009)
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014) (947)
The Resource-Ratio Hypothesis of Plant Succession (1985) (921)
Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes (2015) (883)
Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2 (2006) (855)
The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in species invasions. (2007) (840)
Perspectives on Plant Competition (1991) (835)
Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands (2008) (830)
Effects of plant species richness on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity. (1999) (816)
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems (2007) (759)
Biodiversity, Stability, and Productivity in Competitive Communities (2000) (727)
Constraints and tradeoffs: toward a predictive theory of competition and succession (1990) (708)
Community assembly and invasion: An experimental test of neutral versus niche processes (2003) (701)
Plant diversity increases resistance to invasion in the absence of covarying extrinsic factors (2000) (693)
Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades (2012) (689)
Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation (2008) (653)
Resources: A Graphical-Mechanistic Approach to Competition and Predation (1980) (647)
Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species (2003) (623)
Experimental Tests of the Dependence of Arthropod Diversity on Plant Diversity (1998) (614)
Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention (2017) (613)
Causes, consequences and ethics of biodiversity (2000) (604)
Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity (2009) (597)
Components of resource competition in plant communities. (1990) (593)
Influence of Nitrogen Loading and Species Composition on the Carbon Balance of Grasslands (1996) (583)
Simple Rules for Interspecific Dominance in Systems with Exploitative and Apparent Competition (1994) (578)
DYNAMICS OF SOIL NITROGEN AND CARBON ACCUMULATION FOR 61 YEARS AFTER AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENT (2000) (563)
Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice (2017) (556)
Long-Term Studies of Vegetation Dynamics (2001) (554)
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition (2001) (551)
Species effects on nitrogen cycling: a test with perennial grasses (1990) (546)
Species Richness of Experimental Productivity Gradients: How Important is Colonization Limitation? (1993) (514)
Herbivore effects on plant and nitrogen dynamics in oak Savanna (1998) (512)
Diversity‐Stability Relationships: Statistical Inevitability or Ecological Consequence? (1998) (506)
Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity (2013) (497)
Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimension (2007) (486)
Contrasting Effects of Plant Richness and Composition on Insect Communities: A Field Experiment (2001) (481)
PLANT COMPETITION AND RESOURCE AVAILABILITY IN RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCE AND FERTILIZATION (1993) (467)
Human-caused environmental change: Impacts on plant diversity and evolution (2001) (462)
Plant species loss decreases arthropod diversity and shifts trophic structure. (2009) (450)
Competition Among Grasses Along a Nitrogen Gradient: Initial Conditions and Mechanisms of Competition (1993) (446)
Plant Traits and Resource Reduction For Five Grasses Growing on a Nitrogen Gradient (1991) (442)
Diversity decreases invasion via both sampling and complementarity effects (2005) (439)
Linking leaf and root trait syndromes among 39 grassland and savannah species. (2005) (435)
Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity (2015) (413)
Component of Plant Competition Along an Experimental Gradient of Nitrogen Availability (1991) (408)
Green, bluegreen and diatom algae: Taxonomie differences in competitive ability for phosphorus, silicon and nitrogen (1986) (400)
Sustaining multiple ecosystem functions in grassland communities requires higher biodiversity (2010) (399)
From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity–productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experiment (2007) (395)
Sexuality and the Components of Environmental Uncertainty: Clues from Geographic Parthenogenesis in Terrestrial Animals (1978) (395)
Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory (2012) (393)
The greening of the green revolution (1998) (386)
PLANT PRODUCTION AND SOIL MICROORGANISMS IN LATE-SUCCESSIONAL ECOSYSTEMS: A CONTINENTAL-SCALE STUDY' (1994) (381)
Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture. (2014) (369)
Nexus approaches to global sustainable development (2018) (368)
The Importance of the Mechanisms of Interspecific Competition (1987) (363)
Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability (2012) (361)
Effects of grassland plant species diversity, abundance, and composition on foliar fungal disease (2002) (357)
Limiting Similarity in Mechanistic and Spatial Models of Plant Competition in Heterogeneous Environments (1994) (356)
Functional traits, productivity and effects on nitrogen cycling of 33 grassland species (2002) (352)
The relationships among root and leaf traits of 76 grassland species and relative abundance along fertility and disturbance gradients (2001) (352)
Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets (2020) (343)
Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods (2019) (340)
Dynamic and static views of succession: Testing the descriptive power of the chronosequence approach (2004) (336)
Old‐Field Succession on a Minnesota Sand Plain (1987) (336)
Plant and Soil Controls on Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities (1992) (333)
Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasoline (2009) (332)
Plant Dominance Along an Experimental Nutrient Gradient (1984) (329)
Ecosystem consequences of changing biodiversity (1998) (322)
PHOSPHATE AND SILICATE GROWTH AND UPTAKE KINETICS OF THE DIATOMS ASTERIONELLA FORMOSA AND CYCLOTELLA MENEGHINIANA IN BATCH AND SEMICONTINUOUS CULTURE 1 (1976) (315)
Resource Competition and Community Structure. (MPB-17), Volume 17 (2020) (312)
Tests of Resource Competition Theory Using Four Species of Lake Michigan Algae (1981) (306)
DYNAMICS OF NITROGEN COMPETITION BETWEEN SUCCESSIONAL GRASSES (1991) (302)
Paying for Ecosystem Services—Promise and Peril (2011) (301)
Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. (2006) (290)
Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production (2019) (278)
Do species and functional groups differ in acquisition and use of C, N and water under varying atmospheric CO2 and N availability regimes? : a field test with 16 grassland species (2001) (265)
Species loss and ecosystem functioning : effects of species identity and community composition (1998) (261)
Bioenergy and Wildlife: Threats and Opportunities for Grassland Conservation (2009) (261)
Resource availability controls fungal diversity across a plant diversity gradient. (2006) (258)
Ecological Experimentation: Strengths and Conceptual Problems (1989) (256)
Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients: the elements of a predictive theory of competition. (1990) (254)
Allocation and the transient dynamics of succession on poor soils. (1990) (253)
Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity. (2013) (250)
Niche differences in phenology and rooting depth promote coexistence with a dominant C4 bunchgrass (2005) (246)
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Maintaining Natural Life Support Processes (1999) (245)
Species and functional group diversity independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to CO2 and N. (2004) (243)
Carbon and nitrogen cycling during old-field succession: Constraints on plant and microbial biomass (1990) (237)
The effects of long-term nitrogen loading on grassland insect communities (2000) (237)
Dynamics of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae during old field succession (1991) (235)
National food production stabilized by crop diversity (2019) (235)
Drought and biodiversity in Grasslands (1992) (233)
Plant diversity and the stability of foodwebs. (2011) (232)
Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long‐term grassland experiment (2013) (229)
Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality (2013) (227)
Seed limitation and the regulation of community structure in oak savanna grassland (2003) (224)
Nitrogen-Limited Growth in Plants from Different Successional Stages (1986) (224)
Water implications of biofuels production in the United States (2008) (219)
On the meaning of competition and the mechanisms of competitive superiority (1987) (218)
Mechanisms responsible for the positive diversity–productivity relationship in Minnesota grasslands (2004) (215)
Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship (2018) (209)
Variation in growth rate and ecophysiology among 34 grassland and savanna species under contrasting N supply: a test of functional group differences. (2003) (209)
Distinguishing between the effects of species diversity and species composition (1997) (208)
Effects of elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, and decreased species diversity on foliar fungal plant disease (2003) (207)
Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity (2019) (206)
Insect species diversity, abundance and body size relationships (1996) (205)
Competition and nutrient kinetics along a temperature gradient: An experimental test of a mechanistic approach to niche theory1 (1981) (202)
Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives on the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2003) (201)
Plant Allocation and the Multiple Limitation Hypothesis (1992) (197)
Non-neutral patterns of species abundance in grassland communities. (2005) (192)
Habitat Destruction, Dispersal, and Deterministic Extinction in Competitive Communities (1997) (188)
Oscillations and chaos in the dynamics of a perennial grass (1991) (186)
Convergence and divergence of old-field vegetation after 11 yr of nitrogen addition (1995) (183)
Competitive responses of eight old-field plant species in four environments (1995) (183)
QUADRATIC VARIATION IN OLD-FIELD SPECIES RICHNESS ALONG GRADIENTS OF DISTURBANCE AND NITROGEN (2002) (181)
Cherries, Ants and Tent Caterpillars: Timing of Nectar Production in Relation in Relation to Susceptibility of Catepillars to Ant Predation (1978) (179)
Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity-productivity relationship in an N-limited grassland. (2009) (167)
FIRE SUPPRESSION AND ECOSYSTEM CARBON STORAGE (2000) (162)
Spatial convergent cross mapping to detect causal relationships from short time series. (2015) (161)
Linkages between plant functional composition, fine root processes and potential soil N mineralization rates (2009) (158)
Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment. (2013) (157)
Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability. (2012) (152)
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services (2005) (150)
8 – Allelopathy, Koch's Postulates, and the Neck Riddle (1990) (149)
Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function (2018) (148)
Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos (2004) (145)
Soil carbon sequestration in prairie grasslands increased by chronic nitrogen addition. (2012) (144)
Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought (2016) (143)
The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt. (2015) (143)
Diversity, productivity and temporal stability in the economies of humans and nature (2005) (141)
Plant diversity effects on soil microbial functions and enzymes are stronger than warming in a grassland experiment. (2015) (141)
Diversity loss, recruitment limitation, and ecosystem functioning: lessons learned from a removal experiment (2001) (140)
9 – On the Effects of Competition: From Monocultures to Mixtures (1990) (137)
Plant Competition in Relation to Neighbor Biomass: An Intercontinental Study with POA Pratensis (1994) (136)
Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors (2015) (135)
Resource Use Patterns Predict Long‐Term Outcomes of Plant Competition for Nutrients and Light (2007) (134)
Responses of Legumes to Herbivores and Nutrients During Succession on a Nitrogen‐Poor Soil (1995) (132)
Soil fertility increases with plant species diversity in a long-term biodiversity experiment (2008) (128)
Corrigendum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity (2012) (122)
Dynamics of plant and arthropod diversity during old field succession (1999) (120)
Short-term and long-term effects of burning on oak savanna arthropods (1997) (117)
CHERRIES, ANTS AND TENT CATERPILLARS: TIMING OF NECTAR PRODUCTION IN RELATION TO SUSCEPTIBILITY OF CATERPILLARS TO ANT PREDATION1 (1978) (115)
Diversity of plant evolutionary lineages promotes arthropod diversity. (2012) (114)
Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies (2015) (108)
Species Invasions and the Relationships between Species Diversity , Community Saturation , and Ecosystem Functioning 2 (107)
Diversity and Production in European Grasslands (1999) (106)
Plant species traits and capacity for resource reduction predict yield and abundance under competition in nitrogen‐limited grassland (2006) (106)
Food, Agriculture & the Environment: Can We Feed the World & Save the Earth? (2015) (105)
Long-term oscillations in grassland productivity induced by drought (2002) (105)
A Consumer-Resource Approach to Community Structure (1986) (103)
BIOLOGICAL WEED CONTROL VIA NUTRIENT COMPETITION: POTASSIUM LIMITATION OF DANDELIONS (1999) (103)
Interactive effects of fertilization and disturbance on community structure and resource availability in an old-field plant community (1991) (101)
Abundance, diversity and body size: patterns from a grassland arthropod community (1999) (100)
Seed banks and seedling establishment on an experimental productivity gradient (1996) (100)
Pocket gophers (Geomys bursarius), vegetation, and soil nitrogen along a successional sere in east central Minnesota (1987) (100)
Challenges in the Quest for Keystones Identifying keystone species is difficult-but essential to understanding bow loss of species will affect ecosystems (2003) (100)
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Properties (1997) (100)
Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed (2019) (98)
Plant allocation, growth rate and successional status (1994) (98)
Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions. (2013) (97)
Plant succession and gopher disturbance along an experimental gradient (1983) (96)
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE OF OLD-FIELD PLANT COMMUNITIES ALONG EXPERIMENTAL NITROGEN GRADIENTS' (1988) (95)
Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities (2017) (94)
Effects of plant diversity, N fertilization, and elevated carbon dioxide on grassland soil N cycling in a long‐term experiment (2013) (93)
DOES METABOLIC THEORY APPLY TO COMMUNITY ECOLOGY? IT'S A MATTER OF SCALE (2004) (91)
Community Diversity and Succession: The Roles of Competition, Dispersal, and Habitat Modification (1994) (89)
Population dynamics in spatial habitats (1997) (88)
The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity: Empirical Progress and Theoretical Extensions (MPB-33) (2013) (83)
Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems (2017) (82)
Mechanisms of Plant Competition (2009) (81)
Growth of old field herbs on a nitrogen gradient (1989) (78)
Shifting grassland plant community structure drives positive interactive effects of warming and diversity on aboveground net primary productivity (2016) (77)
Predicting overfishing and extinction threats in multispecies fisheries (2013) (76)
Diversity by Default (1999) (75)
Resource availability underlies the plant-fungal diversity relationship in a grassland ecosystem. (2018) (73)
The Park Grass Experiment: insights from the most long-term ecological study (1994) (71)
Traits linked with species invasiveness and community invasibility vary with time, stage and indicator of invasion in a long-term grassland experiment. (2019) (70)
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic (2019) (69)
Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion (2020) (69)
Sustainable intensification of high-diversity biomass production for optimal biofuel benefits (2018) (66)
Deficits of biodiversity and productivity linger a century after agricultural abandonment (2019) (65)
The role of plant species in biomass production and response to elevated CO 2 and N (2003) (63)
Seasonal Variation in the NDVI-Species Richness Relationship in a Prairie Grassland Experiment (Cedar Creek) (2016) (62)
Air-quality-related health damages of maize (2019) (61)
Little bluestem litter dynamics in Minnesota old fields (1987) (61)
The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage (2017) (61)
1 – Perspectives on Plant Competition: Some Introductory Remarks (1990) (60)
Erratum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity (Nature (2012) 486 (59-67) DOI:10.1038/nature11148) (2012) (60)
The Diet, Health, and Environment Trilemma (2018) (60)
Resource Competition and Community Structure (1984) (59)
Diversification, Biotic Interchange, and the Universal Trade-Off Hypothesis (2011) (58)
Long-term increased grain yield and soil fertility from intercropping (2021) (58)
A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma (1998) (58)
Ecological Science and the Human Predicament (1998) (57)
Ecological Science and the Human Predicament (1998) (57)
Agricultural and biofuel implications of a species diversity experiment with native perennial grassland plants (2010) (56)
Competition, nutrient reduction and the competitive neighbourhood of a bunchgrass (1989) (55)
Seedling resistance to herbivory as a predictor of relative abundance in a synthesised prairie community (2003) (54)
6. Discussion: Population Dynamics and Species Interactions (1989) (54)
Biosphere 2 and Biodiversity--The Lessons So Far (1996) (53)
Recovery of plant diversity following N cessation: effects of recruitment, litter, and elevated N cycling. (2010) (52)
Selective herbivory on a nitrogen fixing legume (Lathyrus venosus) influences productivity and ecosystem nitrogen pools in an oak savanna (2000) (51)
Competition in spatial habitats (1997) (51)
Competition and Coexistence in Terrestrial Plants (2002) (50)
Supporting Online Material for Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error (2009) (50)
Food webs obscure the strength of plant diversity effects on primary productivity. (2017) (50)
Resource competition and plant traits: a response to Craine et al. 2005 (2007) (50)
Phosphate and Silicate Kinetics for the Lake Michigan Diatom Diatoma Elongatum (1977) (49)
Introduced species that overcome life history tradeoffs can cause native extinctions (2018) (49)
Climate warming promotes species diversity, but with greater taxonomic redundancy, in complex environments (2017) (48)
Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human (2006) (48)
Contingent factors explain average divergence in functional composition over 88 years of old field succession (2018) (46)
Measurement of leaf longevity of 14 species of grasses and forbs using a novel approach (1999) (45)
Interspecific competition and multispecies coexistence (2007) (44)
Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in four Minnesota old fields (1987) (44)
Range contraction enables harvesting to extinction (2017) (44)
Tree diversity, tree height and environmental harshness in eastern and western North America. (2016) (42)
ethanol biofuels From the Cover: Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and (2006) (42)
The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity (2013) (41)
Long‐lasting effects on nitrogen cycling 12 years after treatments cease despite minimal long‐term nitrogen retention (2009) (41)
Soil and root carbon storage is key to climate benefits of bioenergy crops (2020) (41)
Morphometric changes in Asterionella formosa colonies under phosphate and silicate limitation1 (1976) (40)
Biodiversity and ecosystem properties [3] (multiple letters) (1997) (39)
Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory (2020) (38)
Air quality–related health damages of food (2021) (37)
Invasions of equilibria: tests of resource competition using two species of algae (1984) (37)
10. Habitat Destruction and Species Extinctions (1998) (37)
Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony (2021) (37)
Benefits of intensive agricultural intercropping (2020) (36)
Ecology: Diversity breeds complementarity (2014) (35)
Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products (2022) (35)
1 Biodiversity and Stability in Grasslands (34)
Forbs, grasses, and grassland fire behaviour (2018) (34)
Restoring Abandoned Farmland to Mitigate Climate Change on a Full Earth (2020) (33)
Biodiversity and decomposition in experimental grassland ecosystems (2001) (33)
Plant biodiversity and the regeneration of soil fertility (2021) (33)
An experimental study of the effects of pH and nitrogen on grassland vegetation (1991) (33)
Effects of diversity and composition on grassland stability and productivity. (2001) (32)
Does diversity beget stability? (1994) (32)
Grassland biodiversity can pay (2018) (32)
Interspecific competition among grasshoppers and their effect on plant abundance in experimental field environments (1992) (31)
Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments. (2019) (31)
Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines (2015) (31)
Relative Growth Rates and Plant Allocation Patterns (1991) (31)
Plant effects on soil N mineralization are mediated by the composition of multiple soil organic fractions (2010) (30)
The Benefits of Natural Disasters (1996) (30)
Spatial Models of Competition (2002) (27)
Linking ecosystem and parasite ecology (2007) (27)
Food‐web composition and plant diversity control foliar nutrient content and stoichiometry (2015) (26)
Crop diversification can contribute to disease risk control in sustainable biofuels production (2015) (26)
Phenological responses of prairie plants vary among species and year in a three-year experimental warming study (2015) (26)
2. Biodiversity, Composition, and Ecosystem Processes: Theory and Concepts (2013) (25)
correction: Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition (2001) (25)
SPECIES RESPONSES TO NITROGEN FERTILIZATION IN HERBACEOUS PLANT COMMUNITIES, AND ASSOCIATED SPECIES TRAITS Ecological Archives E089-070 (2008) (25)
Predictions of species interactions from consumer-resource theory: experimental tests with grasshoppers and plants (1993) (24)
CO2, nitrogen, and diversity differentially affect seed production of prairie plants. (2009) (24)
Some Thoughts on Resource Competition and Diversity in Plant Communities (1983) (23)
An evolutionary approach to ecosystem functioning (2001) (22)
The Schism between Theory and Ardent Empiricism: A Reply to Shipley and Peters (1991) (22)
Mechanistically derived dispersal kernels explain species-level patterns of recruitment and succession. (2018) (21)
Species Composition, Species Diversity, and Ecosystem Processes: Understanding the Impacts of Global Change (1998) (21)
Resistance of soil biota and plant growth to disturbance increases with plant diversity. (2019) (21)
Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments (2018) (20)
Identifying mechanisms that structure ecological communities by snapping model parameters to empirically observed tradeoffs. (2018) (20)
Biodiversity & Environmental Sustainability amid Human Domination of Global Ecosystems (2012) (18)
Consequences of elevated temperatures on legume biomass and nitrogen cycling in a field warming and biodiversity experiment in a North American prairie. (2013) (17)
Towards a theoretical basis for ecosystem conservation (2001) (17)
Grassland ecosystem recovery after soil disturbance depends on nutrient supply rate. (2020) (16)
Seed and microsite limitation in a late-successional old field: the effects of water, adults, litter, and small mammals on seeds and seedlings (2012) (15)
Response to Comment on "Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass" (2007) (14)
Further re-analyses looking for effects of phylogenetic diversity on community biomass and stability (2015) (14)
Diversity‐dependent soil acidification under nitrogen enrichment constrains biomass productivity (2020) (14)
Response—Ecosystem Services: Free Lunch No More (2012) (12)
8. Competition in Spatial Habitats (1998) (12)
II.5 Competition and Coexistence in Plant Communities (2009) (12)
Bioenergy: Counting on Incentives—Response (2010) (12)
TRENDS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF ALPHA DIVERSITY IN THE LAST TWO DECADES (2005) (12)
Community diversity outweighs effect of warming on plant colonization (2020) (12)
Further thoughts on competition for essential resources (1987) (12)
3. Experimental and Observational Studies of Diversity, Productivity, and Stability (2013) (11)
Ecology: Diversity and stability in plant communities (Reply) (2007) (11)
Short-term response of old-field plant communities to fire and disturbance. (1993) (11)
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition [4] (multiple letters) (1997) (10)
Lost in trait space: species-poor communities are inflexible in properties that drive ecosystem functioning (2019) (10)
Carbon Calculations to Consider—Response (2010) (9)
A Reply to Sell, Carney, and Fahnenstiel (1984) (9)
MYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL COMMUNITIES (1992) (9)
OUR FOOD IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: THE EAT-LANCET COMMISSION ON HEALTHY DIETS FROM SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS (2019) (9)
Point Source Ammonia Emissions are Having a Detrimental Impact On Prairie Vegetation (2010) (9)
Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: Theoretical considerations (biodiversityyresource competitionysoil fertilityynutrient useyretention) (1997) (7)
African mammals, foodwebs, and coexistence (2015) (7)
Biodiversity and agriculture (2019) (7)
The role of nutrient competition in a predictive theory of phytoplankton population dynamics: With 1 figure in the text (1978) (7)
Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems (2020) (6)
Chronic fertilization and irrigation gradually and increasingly restructure grassland communities (2019) (6)
Response of Microtus pennsylvanicus to vegetation fertilized with various nutrients, with particular emphasis on sodium and nitrogen concentrations in plant tissues (1987) (6)
A Changing Planet (2020) (6)
Global protected areas seem insufficient to safeguard half of the world's mammals from human-induced extinction (2022) (6)
Biodiversity: From evolutionary origins to ecosystem functioning (2016) (5)
Is fertilization efficiency misleading (2003) (5)
High-Diversity Grassland Biomass Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input (2007) (5)
Tree diversity in relation to maximum tree height: evidence for the harshness hypothesis of species diversity gradients. (2017) (5)
Ecosystem goods and services and their limits: the roles of biological diversity and management practices: Natural Resources and the Environment in the New M (2005) (4)
Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning (2019) (4)
Cultivate biodiversity to harvest food security and sustainability (2021) (4)
Reaping the benefits of cropping experiments (1999) (3)
Reply to Le Pape et al.: Management is key to preventing marine extinctions (2017) (3)
The role of experiments in ecology [1] (1995) (3)
Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2013) 110, 25 (10219-10222) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220333110) (2013) (2)
Short-term plant-soil feedback experiment fails to predict outcome of competition observed in long-term field experiment. (2022) (2)
Food & Health of a Full Earth (2015) (2)
Reply to: Crop asynchrony stabilizes food production (2020) (2)
Energy and conservation benefits from managed prairie biomass (2011) (2)
The letters about our commentary raise. (2009) (2)
7. The Transition from Sampling to Complementarity Stephen Pacala and David Tilman (2013) (2)
Impact of multiple small and persistent threats on extinction risk (2022) (2)
Public Access and Use of Electronically Archived Data: ethical considerations (2001) (2)
Neighborhoods have little effect on fungal attack or insect predation of developing seeds in a grassland biodiversity experiment (2014) (2)
Erratum: The contribution of 700,000 ORF sequence tags to the definition of the human transcriptome (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (October 9, 2001) 98 (12103-12108)) (2003) (2)
Saving biodiversity in the era of human-dominated ecosystems (2019) (2)
Might field experiments also be inadvertent metacommunities? (2022) (2)
Evolution, Speciation, and the Persistence Paradox (2020) (1)
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Saving Biodiversity in the Era of Human-Dominated Ecosystems (2019) (1)
Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits (2018) (1)
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services Coordinating Lead (2006) (1)
Species fragmentation or area loss? (1996) (1)
Introduction to the series (1997) (1)
1. Population Dynamics i n Spatial Habitats (1998) (1)
Data and code from: Asynchrony among local communities stabilizes ecosystem function of metacommunities (2017) (1)
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic (2020) (1)
Quantifying the environmental limits to fire spread in grassy ecosystems (2022) (1)
Book Review:General Ecology. S. J. McNaughton, Larry L. Wolf (1980) (1)
Ecology (communications arising): Is fertilization efficiency misleading? (2003) (1)
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve site, station Old Field C 69 a at Cedar Creek, study of plant cover in units of percent on a yearly timescale (2013) (0)
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve site, station Old Field 27 at Cedar Creek, study of plant cover of Panicum praecocius in units of percent on a yearly timescale (2014) (0)
Val Houston Smith (1950–2016): Putting the Puzzle Together from Organelles to Ecosystems (2016) (0)
Ecological Scaling in Space and Time (2020) (0)
WOODLANDS (1997) (0)
Soil nitrogen: Tree Competition Garden (2013) (0)
Reply to Muzzioli et al.: Communicating nutrition and environmental information to food system stakeholders (2023) (0)
A Blueprint for Creating The Institute on the Environment for the University of Minnesota (2006) (0)
Benefits of intensive agricultural intercropping (2020) (0)
Direct and indirect effects of gophers (Geomys bursarius) onold-field succession (1986) (0)
PERSPECTIVE The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt (2014) (0)
Erratum: (Nature (July 18, 1996) 382 (215-216)) (1996) (0)
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve site, station Old Field 26 at Cedar Creek, study of plant biomass of Erigeron strigosus in units of gramsPerSquareMeter on a yearly timescale (2013) (0)
S68 Effect of calcimimetic R-568 in apolipoprotein E deficient mice with surgically induced kidney disease (2009) (0)
Synergistic anti-tumour effects on human breast cancer cells by mevalonate pathway inhibitors atorvastatin and zoledronic acid (2013) (0)
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve site, station Old Field 24 at Cedar Creek, study of plant biomass of Andropogon gerardii in units of gramsPerSquareMeter on a yearly timescale (2013) (0)
For your interest only, the following is a great article on how agricultural practices are driving global environmental change (including impacts on nutrient cycling): (2001) (0)
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve site, station Old Field 5 at Cedar Creek, study of plant biomass of Digitaria sanguinalis in units of gramsPerSquareMeter on a yearly timescale (2014) (0)
Ecology : diversity and stability in plant communities : Tilman et al. reply (2010) (0)
Abderrahman Khila Sexually Antagonistic Trait Function , Developmental Genetics , and Fitness Consequences of a (2012) (0)
Tilman vs Grime: Problems of Competition and Tolerance@@@Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (1989) (0)
Succession in old fieldsin east central Minnesota: patterns of vegetation, soils, and gopher activity (1984) (0)
Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning (2019) (0)
Mechanistically-Derived Dispersal Kernels Explain Species-Level Patterns of Recruitment and Succession (2019) (0)
National food production stabilized by crop diversity (2019) (0)
Prairie grasses for biofuel (2007) (0)
The Essence and Ethics of Ecology and Conservation (1998) (0)
Author Correction: Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems (2019) (0)
Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 1 Linking ecosystem and parasite ecology (2004) (0)
Session 1 : Setting the Stage : Soils , Society and Global Change – Global and Local Perspectives (2009) (0)
A Milestone in Community Ecology@@@Perspectives on Plant Competition. (1991) (0)
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve site, station Old Field C 69 a at Cedar Creek, study of plant cover of Aster azureus in units of percent on a yearly timescale (2014) (0)
The Role of Experiments in Ecology (1995) (0)
and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels (2006) (0)
Predictions of coexistence from short-term plant-soil feedback experiments fail to predict long-term observations from a controlled competition experiment (2015) (0)
Review for "We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data" (2021) (0)
The Future of Science: Food and Water for Life (2009) (0)
Effects of Plant Biodiversity on Ecosystem Productivity within a Savannah Grassland Community (2004) (0)
The Essence and Ethics of Ecology and Conservation@@@A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma (1998) (0)
Seed and microsite limitation in a late-successional old field: the effects of water, adults, litter, and small mammals on seeds and seedlings (2012) (0)
Introduced species that overcome life history tradeoffs can cause native extinctions (2018) (0)
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve site, station Old Field 32 at Cedar Creek, study of plant cover of Erigeron strigosus in units of percent on a yearly timescale (2014) (0)
Herbivory in Minnesota old-fields: interactions of herbivores,plants, and plant resources (1986) (0)
6 Experimentation: Strengths and Conceptual Problems (1989) (0)
Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens (2021) (0)
Is the fertilization effect misleading? Reply (2003) (0)
Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship (2018) (0)
14. Looking Back and Peering Forward (2013) (0)
Askö 1998: The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value (2010) (0)
EXTINCTION IN COMPETITIVE COMMUNITIES (1997) (0)
Analysis method: SOLAR (black line), MERLIN-VC (red line), MERLIN-REGRESS (blue line) (2011) (0)
The recovery of plant community composition following passive restoration across spatial scales (2022) (0)
Neighborhoods have little effect on fungal attack or insect predation of developing seeds in a grassland biodiversity experiment (2013) (0)
Presentation: Life on a Human-Dominated Earth: The Challenges Ahead (2003) (0)
Biodiversitylossandits impactonhumanity (2012) (0)
Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function (2018) (0)
Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems (2017) (0)

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