Figure 5.

Magnitudes of local and larger scale biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning for the BioCON experiment. (a) Complementarity effects were much larger than selection effects, regardless of whether they were quantified at local or larger scales. (b) The positive net biodiversity effect was due primarily to a positive total complementarity effect and secondarily to a positive total insurance effect, both of which were counter-balanced by a negative non-random overyielding effect. (c) Total insurance effects were mostly explained by temporal insurance effects.