How does biodiversity loss interact with other aspects of global change?
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One of my dissertation chapters, now published in Global Change Biology, examined how biodiversity mediates the impact of warming using the long-term diversity x warming experiment at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve.
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I am also lead author on two other efforts examining such interactive effects:
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A soon-to-be-submitted paper as part of a collection of papers regarding the role of long-term ecological research, specifically the LTER network, in providing important information on future climate change trajectories. We focused on how we could incorporate experimental manipulations with long-term observations to observe scenarios that have yet to occur in the real world, but are likely to in the future. This is just one element of the paper -- Look for that paper coming out soon! The combination of experiments and natural variability also was an important take home message from my 2018 paper in Ecology and Evolution from a global climate change experiment conducted in the Mongolian Steppe.
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I am leading a synthesis effort that was started during grad school by my colleague Clare Kazanski examining the impacts of natural precipitation variability on the outcome of other global climate change manipulations, including experimental biodiversity and nitrogen manipulations. Even though water isn't incredibly limiting at our field site, we still found important effects of precipitation on effect strength. We are writing this paper now and expect to submit it this year.