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| Trade-offs in biodiversity and ecosystem services between edges and interiors in European forests
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| The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales
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| Acclimation of phenology relieves leaf longevity constraints in deciduous forests
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| Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected
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| Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
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| Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity
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| Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient
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| Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide
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| Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs
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| The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass
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| Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests
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| The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic
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| Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs
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| Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities
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| Species diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas
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| Diversity on the rebound
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| Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems
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| Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality
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| History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests
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