David Tilman

Research interests

Publications

• Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

  The Lancet · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)31788-4

• Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0594-0

• Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22900

• Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

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

• Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

  Nature · 2014 · 10.1038/nature13959

• Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture

  New Phytologist · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12778

• Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

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

• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

  Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2012 · 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091917

• High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

  Nature · 2011 · 10.1038/nature10282

• Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116437108

• Solutions for a cultivated planet

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10452

• Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

  Science · 2008 · 10.1126/science.1152747

• Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature04742

• Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 10.1073/pnas.0604600103

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

  Ecology Letters · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00608.x

• Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices

  Nature · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01014

• Diversity and Productivity in a Long-Term Grassland Experiment

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.1060391

• Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.1057544

• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.1064088

• The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value

  Science · 2000 · 10.1126/science.289.5478.395

• Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems

  Environmental Pollution · 1999 · 10.1016/s0269-7491(99)00091-3

• The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes

  Science · 1997 · 10.1126/science.277.5330.1300

• Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems

  Nature · 1996 · 10.1038/379718a0

• Challenges in the Quest for Keystones

  BioScience · 1996 · 10.2307/1312990

• Biodiversity and stability in grasslands

  Nature · 1994 · 10.1038/367363a0

• Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats

  Ecology · 1994 · 10.2307/1939377

• Habitat destruction and the extinction debt

  Nature · 1994 · 10.1038/371065a0

• Resource Competition and Community Structure

  Journal of Animal Ecology · 1984 · 10.2307/4549

• Resource Competition and Community Structure.

  Journal of Ecology · 1983 · 10.2307/2259756

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