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PLoS BIOLOGY Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems 1,2* 1,2 3 1,4 5 ¨ 6 Jason M. Tylianakis , Tatyana A. Rand , Ansgar Kahmen , Alexandra-Maria Klein , Nina Buchmann , Jorg Perner , 1 Teja Tscharntke ¨ 1 Agroecology, Georg-August-University, Gottingen, Germany, 2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3 Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, United States of America, 4 Department Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley, California, United States of America, 5 Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 6 U.A.S. Umwelt- und Agrarstudien GmbH, Jena, Germany Numerous recent studies have tested the effects of plant, pollinator, and predator diversity on primary productivity, pollination, and consumption, respectively. Many have shown a positive relationship, particularly in controlled experiments, but variability in results has emphasized the context-dependency of these relationships. Complementary resource use may lead to a positive relationship between diversity and these processes, but only when a diverse array of niches is available to be partitioned among species. Therefore, the slope of the diversity-function relationship may change across differing levels of heterogeneity, but empirical evaluations of this pattern are lacking. Here we examine three important functions/properties in different