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Biodiversity boosts productivity most during extreme drought in drier grasslands

When extreme drought strikes, drier grasslands receive the greatest productivity benefit from biodiversity.

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When extreme drought strikes, drier grasslands receive the greatest productivity benefit from biodiversity. By contrast, forests did not show the same context-dependent pattern under drought, according to a new global synthesis of 75 biodiversity experiments. Researchers from Yokohama National University published their results in Nature Ecology & Evolution…

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