Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

By B. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez, David U Hooper, Charles Perrings, P. Venail, Anita Narwani, Georgina M. Mace, David Tilman, David A. Wardle and 7 more. Nature, 2012

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The portfolio concept in ecology and evolution (2015, background): “Such portfolio effects are now widely recognized in community ecology (Cardinale et al. 2012). n Habitat and successional pathways Habitat heterogeneity provides the foundation for a variety of variance-dampening phenomena in ecology.”
Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide (2016, background): “For a review on the mathematical properties of Rao’s quadratic diversity, see Pavoine (2012) and references therein. Here, it is only worth mentioning that for dij = 1 for all i 6 1⁄4 j, Q reduces to the wellknown Simpson index D 1⁄4 1 i pi 1 pi ð Þ 1⁄41 P i p 2 i , with D ≥ Q (since the dissimilari”
Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring (2018, background): “When Cardinale et al. (2012) summarised that “[d]iverse communities are more productive because they contain key species that have a large influence on productivity, and differences in functional traits among organisms increase total resource capture,” they convey that identity and composition are…”
Synthesizing multiple data types for biological conservation using integrated population models (2018, background): “Biodiversity loss is one of the most pressing environmental problems, impacting ecosystem functions, community dynamics, and human and wildlife health (Cardinale et al., 2012; Lefcheck et al., 2015).”
Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “…between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning have led to a significant paradigm shift in our understanding of the way in which biological diversity should be safeguarded (Naeem et al., 2009; Cardinale et al., 2012; Hooper et al., 2012; Naeem, Duffy & Zavaleta, 2012; Tilman, Reich & Isbell, 2012).”
REVIEW: Do polycultures promote win‐wins or trade‐offs in agricultural ecosystem services? A meta‐analysis (2014, positive): “Building upon the work of others (Poveda, Gomez & Martinez 2008; Power 2010; Letourneau et al. 2011; Cardinale et al. 2012; Kremen & Miles 2012), this is the first synthesis study, to the best of our knowledge, to directly assess how biocontrol and yield are simultaneously affected by polycultural c”
Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “As the biodiversity of an ecosystem declines, so too does the efficiency by which ecological communities capture essential resources, produce biomass, decompose organic material, and recycle nutrients [Cardinale et al., 2012].”
Loss of habitat and connectivity erodes species diversity, ecosystem functioning, and stability in metacommunity networks (2017, background): “However, there are clearly processes at play in real ecosystems that allow species to co-exist without dispersal, such as species that specialize on different resources (Tilman 1990), non-linear responses to environmental changes (Levins 1979), and the temporal storage effect (Chesson 2000).”
Efficiency of Plant Breeding (2015, background): “Given the importance of agrobiodiversity and the dangers associated with its decline (Cardinale et al., 2012; Hooper et al., 2012), and given that many measures of genetic diversity are available (Mohammadi and Prasanna, 2003), we conclude that a measure of agrobiodiversity between varieties adopted”
Cow Milk versus Plant-Based Milk Substitutes: A Comparison of Product Image and Motivational Structure of Consumption (2019, background): “This will further contribute to the loss of biodiversity, whose speed and rate are unprecedented in human history [36].”