Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

By Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem, P. Inchausti, J. Bengtsson, J. P. Grime, Andy Hector, David U Hooper, M. Huston, D. Raffaelli, Barbara C. Schmid and 2 more. Science, 2001

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Invasion in space and time: non‐native species richness and relative abundance respond to interannual variation in productivity and diversity (2004, background): “Studies which experimentally manipulated species composition have found that increasing species richness leads to lower available resources above and belowground (Tilman et al. 1996, Loreau et al. 2001), and also to fewer invaders (Hector et al. 2001, Kennedy et al. 2002).”
Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity–productivity relationships in Iberian forests (2014, background): “Motivated by the threat of a global biodiversity crisis, ecologists have been trying to understand how biodiversity loss will affect the way in which ecosystems function (Schulze & Mooney 1993; Naeem et al. 1994; Loreau et al. 2001; Hooper et al. 2005, 2012; Tilman, Reich & Isbell 2012).”
Biodiversity, functional roles and ecosystem services of groundwater invertebrates (2008, background): “and species-rich (Loreau et al. 2001; Ostfeld and LoGiudice 2003).”
The critical natural capital of ecosystem performance as insurance for human well-being (2003, background): “Biological diversity plays a significant role in ecosystem performance and resilience (e.g. Peterson et al., 1998; Walker et al., 1999; Chapin et al., 2000; Loreau et al., 2001; Diaz and Cabido, 2001; Kinzig et al., 2002).”
Average functional distinctness as a measure of the composition of assemblages (2008, background): “…local to global, leading to sometimes drastic alterations in the structure and composition of ecological communities and prompting research into the possible consequences of such changes for the functioning of ecosystems and derived ecosystem services (Loreau et al., 2001; Hooper et al., 2005).”
Microbial diversity in soil: ecological theories, the contribution of molecular techniques and the impact of transgenic plants and transgenic microorganisms (2004, neutral): “However there is a consensus that “some minimum number of species is essential for ecosystem functioning under constant conditions and that a larger number of species is probably essential for maintaining the stability of ecosystem processes in changing environments” (Loreau et al. 2001).”
Susceptibility to Fungal Pathogens of Forests Differing in Tree Diversity (2005, background): “in a more buffered manner than a less diverse one (Loreau et al. 2001).”
Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (2009, methodology): “Thus contrary to the interpretation that the observed positive diversity effect on productivity in diversity-manipulation experiments represents the ‘true’ biodiversity effect (Loreau et al. 2001; Schmid 2002; Hector et al. 2007), here we view it as a possibly transient effect associated with the re”
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, background): “Two consensus reviews (Hooper et al. 2005, Loreau et al. 2001) intentionally brought together investigators with diverging perspectives to find common ground.”
Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding (2008, background): “In fact, in a reassessment by Cardinale et al. (2007), using those studies for which an additive partitioning analysis ( Loreau and Hector 2001 ) could be carried out, it turned out that selection or sampling effects were far less general than originally suggested by Cardinale et al. (2006).”