Michel Loreau

Research interests

Publications

• Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature22899

• Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15374

• Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

  Ecology Letters · 2013 · 10.1111/ele.12073

• Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

  Nature · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11148

• High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10282

• General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

  Ecology · 2010 · 10.1890/09-1162.1

• The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities

  Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2009 · 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173349

• Species Synchrony and Its Drivers: Neutral and Nonneutral Community Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments

  The American Naturalist · 2008 · 10.1086/589746

• Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems

  Functional Ecology · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01275.x

• The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity

  Ecology Letters · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01037.x

• Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 10.1073/pnas.0709069104

• EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

  Ecological Monographs · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1890/04-0922

• Functional Diversity of Plant–Pollinator Interaction Webs Enhances the Persistence of Plant Communities

  PLoS Biology · 2005 · 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040001

• Biodiversity Effects on Soil Processes Explained by Interspecific Functional Dissimilarity

  Science · 2004 · 10.1126/science.1101865

• The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology

  Ecology Letters · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00608.x

• Community Patterns in Source‐Sink Metacommunities

  The American Naturalist · 2003 · 10.1086/378857

• Biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2003 · 10.1073/pnas.2235465100

• Meta‐ecosystems: a theoretical framework for a spatial ecosystem ecology

  Ecology Letters · 2003 · 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00483.x

• Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning : synthesis and perspectives

  · 2002

• Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments

  Nature · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35083573

• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

  Science · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1064088

• Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances

  Oikos · 2000 · 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.910101.x

• Plant Diversity and Productivity Experiments in European Grasslands

  Science · 1999 · 10.1126/science.286.5442.1123

• Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 10.1073/pnas.96.4.1463

• Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A mechanistic model

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · 10.1073/pnas.95.10.5632

Current projects

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