BIOdiversity, STAbility and sustainability in Spatial Ecological and social-ecological Systems

Project Information

BIOSTASES

Grant agreement ID: 666971

DOI 10.3030/666971

Project closed

EC signature date 22 June 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 31 August 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 092 644,00

EU contribution € 2 092 644,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (42)

An ecological theory of changing human population dynamics

Author(s): Kirsten Henderson, Michel Loreau
Published in: People and Nature, Issue 1/1, 2019, Page(s) 31-43, ISSN 2575-8314
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1002/pan3.8

Scale dependence of the diversity-stability relationship in a temperate grassland

Author(s): Yunhai Zhang, Nianpeng He, Michel Loreau, Qingmin Pan, Xingguo Han
Published in: Journal of Ecology, Issue 106/3, 2018, Page(s) 1277-1285, ISSN 0022-0477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12903

The Impact of Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Disturbances on Ecosystem Stability

Author(s): Yuval R. Zelnik, Jean-François Arnoldi, Michel Loreau
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 6, 2018, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00224

Nitrogen addition does not reduce the role of spatial asynchrony in stabilising grassland communities

Author(s): Yunhai Zhang, Jinchao Feng, Michel Loreau, Nianpeng He, Xingguo Han, Lin Jiang
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 22/4, 2019, Page(s) 563-571, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13212

Stability and synchrony across ecological hierarchies in heterogeneous metacommunities: linking theory to data

Author(s): Shaopeng Wang, Thomas Lamy, Lauren M. Hallett, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecography, Issue 42/6, 2019, Page(s) 1200-1211, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04290

Agricultural land use and the sustainability of social-ecological systems

Author(s): Diego Bengochea Paz, Kirsten Henderson, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecological Modelling, Issue 437, 2020, Page(s) 109312, ISSN 0304-3800
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109312

Nutrient-induced shifts of dominant species reduce ecosystem stability via increases in species synchrony and population variability

Author(s): Ming-Hua Song, Ning Zong, Jing Jiang, Pei-Li Shi, Xian-Zhou Zhang, Jun-Qin Gao, Hua-Kun Zhou, Yi-Kang Li, Michel Loreau
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 692, 2019, Page(s) 441-449, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.266

Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

Author(s): Andrew Gonzalez, Rachel M. Germain, Diane S. Srivastava, Elise Filotas, Laura E. Dee, Dominique Gravel, Patrick L. Thompson, Forest Isbell, Shaopeng Wang, Sonia Kéfi, Jose Montoya, Yuval R. Zelnik, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 23/4, 2020, Page(s) 757-776, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13456

Climate variability decreases species richness and community stability in a temperate grassland

Author(s): Yunhai Zhang, Michel Loreau, Nianpeng He, Junbang Wang, Qingmin Pan, Yongfei Bai, Xingguo Han
Published in: Oecologia, Issue 188/1, 2018, Page(s) 183-192, ISSN 0029-8549
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4208-1

Linking scaling laws across eukaryotes

Author(s): Ian A. Hatton, Andy P. Dobson, David Storch, Eric D. Galbraith, Michel Loreau
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 116/43, 2019, Page(s) 21616-21622, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1900492116

The three regimes of spatial recovery

Author(s): Yuval R. Zelnik, Jean‐François Arnoldi, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecology, Issue 100/2, 2019, Page(s) e02586, ISSN 0012-9658
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2586

Spatial ecological networks: planning for sustainability in the long-term

Author(s): Andrew Gonzalez, Patrick Thompson, Michel Loreau
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Issue 29, 2017, Page(s) 187-197, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.03.012

Temporal stability of aboveground biomass is governed by species asynchrony in temperate forests

Author(s): Zuoqiang Yuan, Arshad Ali, Shaopeng Wang, Xugao Wang, Fei Lin, Yunyun Wang, Shuai Fang, Zhanqing Hao, Michel Loreau, Lin Jiang
Published in: Ecological Indicators, Issue 107, 2019, Page(s) 105661, ISSN 1470-160X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105661

Pyramids and cascades: a synthesis of food chain functioning and stability

Author(s): Matthieu Barbier, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 22/2, 2019, Page(s) 405-419, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13196

Sustainable Land-use Management Under Biodiversity Lag Effects

Author(s): A.-S. Lafuite, G. Denise, M. Loreau
Published in: Ecological Economics, Issue 154, 2018, Page(s) 272-281, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.08.003

Stability trophic cascades in food chains

Author(s): David W. Shanafelt, Michel Loreau
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 5/11, 2018, Page(s) 180995, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180995

The strength of the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship depends on spatial scale

Author(s): Patrick L. Thompson, Forest Isbell, Michel Loreau, Mary I. O'Connor, Andrew Gonzalez
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 285/1880, 2018, Page(s) 20180038, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0038

Superorganisms or loose collections of species? A unifying theory of community patterns along environmental gradients

Author(s): Kevin Liautaud, Egbert H. van Nes, Matthieu Barbier, Marten Scheffer, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecology Letters, 2019, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13289

Mowing exacerbates the loss of ecosystem stability under nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland

Author(s): Yunhai Zhang, Michel Loreau, Nianpeng He, Guangming Zhang, Xingguo Han
Published in: Functional Ecology, Issue 31/8, 2017, Page(s) 1637-1646, ISSN 0269-8463
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12850

Environmental responses, not species interactions, determine synchrony of dominant species in semiarid grasslands

Author(s): Andrew T. Tredennick, Claire de Mazancourt, Michel Loreau, Peter B. Adler
Published in: Ecology, Issue 98/4, 2017, Page(s) 971-981, ISSN 0012-9658
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1757

How ecosystems recover from pulse perturbations: A theory of short- to long-term responses

Author(s): J.-F. Arnoldi, A. Bideault, M. Loreau, B. Haegeman
Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, Issue 436, 2018, Page(s) 79-92, ISSN 0022-5193
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.10.003

Do-it-yourself networks: a novel method of generating weighted networks

Author(s): D. W. Shanafelt, K. R. Salau, J. A. Baggio
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 4/11, 2017, Page(s) 171227, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171227

Generic assembly patterns in complex ecological communities

Author(s): Matthieu Barbier, Jean-François Arnoldi, Guy Bunin, Michel Loreau
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/9, 2018, Page(s) 2156-2161, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1710352115

Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places

Author(s): Forest Isbell, Jane Cowles, Laura E. Dee, Michel Loreau, Peter B. Reich, Andrew Gonzalez, Andy Hector, Bernhard Schmid
Published in: Ecology Letters, 2018, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12928

Delayed behavioural shifts undermine the sustainability of social–ecological systems

Author(s): A.-S. Lafuite, C. de Mazancourt, M. Loreau
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 284/1868, 2017, Page(s) 20171192, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1192

Time-delayed biodiversity feedbacks and the sustainability of social-ecological systems

Author(s): A.-S. Lafuite, M. Loreau
Published in: Ecological Modelling, Issue 351, 2017, Page(s) 96-108, ISSN 0304-3800
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.022

The relationship between the spatial scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem stability

Author(s): Robin Delsol, Michel Loreau, Bart Haegeman
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12706

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

Author(s): Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez, Michel Loreau, Jane Cowles, Sandra Díaz, Andy Hector, Georgina M. Mace, David A. Wardle, Mary I. O'Connor, J. Emmett Duffy, Lindsay A. Turnbull, Patrick L. Thompson, Anne Larigauderie
Published in: Nature, Issue 546/7656, 2017, Page(s) 65-72, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/nature22899

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability across scales in metacommunities

Author(s): Shaopeng Wang, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 19/5, 2016, Page(s) 510-518, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12582

An invariability-area relationship sheds new light on the spatial scaling of ecological stability

Author(s): Shaopeng Wang, Michel Loreau, Jean-Francois Arnoldi, Jingyun Fang, K. Abd. Rahman, Shengli Tao, Claire de Mazancourt
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 8, 2017, Page(s) 15211, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15211

Phytoplankton functional diversity increases ecosystem productivity and stability

Author(s): S.M. Vallina, P. Cermeno, S. Dutkiewicz, M. Loreau, J.M. Montoya
Published in: Ecological Modelling, Issue 361, 2017, Page(s) 184-196, ISSN 0304-3800
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.06.020

Diversity spurs diversification in ecological communities

Author(s): Vincent Calcagno, Philippe Jarne, Michel Loreau, Nicolas Mouquet, Patrice David
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 8, 2017, Page(s) 15810, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15810

Unifying dynamical and structural stability of equilibria

Author(s): Jean-François Arnoldi, Bart Haegeman
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science, Issue 472/2193, 2016, Page(s) 20150874, ISSN 1364-5021
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2015.0874

Global evidence of positive biodiversity effects on spatial ecosystem stability in natural grasslands

Author(s): Yongfan Wang, Marc W. Cadotte, Yuxin Chen, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Yuhua Zhang, Fengmin Huang, Shan Luo, Nayun Shi, Michel Loreau
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11191-z

Reconciling biodiversity conservation, food production and farmers’ demand in agricultural landscapes

Author(s): Daniel Montoya, Sabrina Gaba, Claire de Mazancourt, Vincent Bretagnolle, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecological Modelling, Issue 416, 2020, Page(s) 108889, ISSN 0304-3800
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108889

Ecotone formation through ecological niche construction: the role of biodiversity and species interactions

Author(s): Kevin Liautaud, Matthieu Barbier, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecography, Issue 43/5, 2020, Page(s) 714-723, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04902

Trade‐offs in the provisioning and stability of ecosystem services in agroecosystems

Author(s): Daniel Montoya, Bart Haegeman, Sabrina Gaba, Claire Mazancourt, Vincent Bretagnolle, Michel Loreau
Published in: Ecological Applications, Issue 29/2, 2019, ISSN 1051-0761
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1853

Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning

Author(s): Matthew G. Burgess, Alexa Fredston-Hermann, David Tilman, Michel Loreau, Steven D. Gaines
Published in: Theoretical Ecology, Issue 12/2, 2019, Page(s) 207-223, ISSN 1874-1738
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-019-0417-4

Disentangling local, metapopulation, and cross‐community sources of stabilization and asynchrony in metacommunities

Author(s): Matthew Hammond, Michel Loreau, Claire Mazancourt, Jurek Kolasa
Published in: Ecosphere, Issue 11/4, 2020, ISSN 2150-8925
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3078

How community adaptation affects biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

Author(s): Flora Aubree, Patrice David, Philippe Jarne, Michel Loreau, Nicolas Mouquet, Vincent Calcagno
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 23/8, 2020, Page(s) 1263-1275, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13530

Species dispersal and biodiversity in human-dominated metacommunities

Author(s): David W. Shanafelt, Jean Clobert, Eli P. Fenichel, Michael E. Hochberg, Ann Kinzig, Michel Loreau, Pablo A. Marquet, Charles Perrings
Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, Issue 457, 2018, Page(s) 199-210, ISSN 0022-5193
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.08.041

How to estimate complementarity and selection effects from an incomplete sample of species

Author(s): Adam Thomas Clark, Kathryn E. Barry, Christiane Roscher, Tina Buchmann, Michel Loreau, W. Stanley Harpole
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10/12, 2019, Page(s) 2141-2152, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13285

Other (7)

Diffuse cliques maintain biodiversity in species-rich ecological communities

Author(s): Barbier, Matthieu; de Mazancourt, Claire; Loreau, Michel; Bunin, Guy
Published in: biorxiv.org, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/652230

Can biomass distribution across trophic levels predict trophic cascades?

Author(s): Galiana, Núria; Arnoldi, Jean-François; Barbier, Matthieu; Acloque, Amandine; de Mazancourt, Claire; Loreau, Michel
Published in: biorxiv.org, Issue 1, 2020
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.04.025460

Particularity of “Universal resilience patterns in complex networks”

Author(s): Arnoldi, Jean-François; Haegeman, Bart; Revilla, Tomás; Loreau, Michel
Published in: 2016
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/056218

Resilience, invariability, and ecological stability across levels of organization

Author(s): Haegeman, Bart; Arnoldi, Jean-François; Wang, Shaopeng; de Mazancourt, Claire; Montoya, José M.; Loreau, Michel
Published in: 2016
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/085852

A macro-ecological approach to predators’ functional response

Author(s): Matthieu Barbier, Laurie Wojcik, Michel Loreau
Published in: bioRxiv, 2020
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/832220

How indirect interactions shape long-term invasion dynamics in complex ecological communities

Author(s): Jean-François Arnoldi; Matthieu Barbier; Ruth Kelly; György Barabás; Andrew L. Jackson
Published in: biorxiv.org, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/705756

Can endogenous fluctuations persist in high-diversity ecosystems?

Author(s): Roy, Felix; Barbier, Matthieu; Biroli, Giulio; Bunin, Guy
Published in: arXiv.org, Issue 1, 2019, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.1101/730820