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Convergent patterns in multitrophic biodiversity effects on yield across ecosystems

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Acknowledgements

I thank Bernhard Schmid for ideas on setting up comparative structural equation models and providing initial R scripts and data. The Jena Experiment has been funded by the DFG (FOR 1451/2, FOR 1451/3). CS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under agreement No. 727284 and from Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101081964.

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Scherber, C. Convergent patterns in multitrophic biodiversity effects on yield across ecosystems. Sci. China Life Sci. 66, 2697–2699 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-023-2399-7

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