Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: An Issue in Ecology

By David A. Wardle, M. Huston, J. P. Grime, F. Berendse, E. Garnier, W. Lauenroth. 2000

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• Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives on the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2003, background): “…crucial for resolving recent debates surrounding the interpretation of experiments designed to examine the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and the applicability of those experiments to the “real world” (e.g., Huston 1997, Huston et al. 2000,Wardle et al. 2000).”
• Ecology, Conservation, and Public Policy (2001, background): “…of biodiversity that are rallying cries for those concerned about widespread destruction of habitats and other human assaults upon our life support system (Kaiser 2000); see the remarkable exchange inThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America(Wardle et al. 2000, Tilman 2000, Naeem 2000).”
• DISENTANGLING THE IMPACTS OF DIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING IN COMBINATORIAL EXPERIMENTS (2002, unknown): “While the experiments themselves are relatively straightforward in design, interpreting their findings has been difficult and a source of much debate (Tilman et al. 1997b, Wardle et al. 1997, 2000, Allison 1999, Kaiser 2000, Naeem 2000).”
• CONTRIBUTION OF SMALL HABITAT FRAGMENTS TO CONSERVATION OF INSECT COMMUNITIES OF GRASSLAND–CROPLAND LANDSCAPES (2002, background): “Usually, species richness and the strength of interactions covary (e.g., trophic interactions among insect species; Didham et al. 1996, Tscharntke and Kruess 1999), but such relations between biodiversity and ecological functions are still controversial (Naeem 2000, Wardle et al. 2000).”
• BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN NUMBER AND IDENTITY OF SPECIES (2005, background): “Although the view that species richness is beneficial for ecosystem performance is widely endorsed (Tilman et al. 1996, Naeem et al. 1999), it is not accepted universally (Givinish 1994, Grime 1997, Wardle et al. 2000).”
• Biodiversity and the functioning of seagrass ecosystems (2006, background): “…of changing biodiversity on ecosystem functioning (BEF) has become a central topic in ecology and conservation biology (Tilman 1999, Loreau et al. 2001, Naeem 2002, Srivastava & Vellend 2005) and a controversial one (Huston 1994, Huston et al. 2000, Schwartz et al. 2000, Wardle et al. 2000).”
• Separating the chance effect from other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities (2001, unknown): “The evidence supporting the diversity effect is now the focus of novel ecological research and is intensively debated (Johnson et al. 1996, Huston 1997, Grime 1998, Hodg-son et al. 1998, Lawton et al. 1998, Tilman 1999, Hector et al. 1999, Naeem et al. 1999, Naeem 2000, Wardle et al. 2000).”
• Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real‐world ecosystems (2009, background): “These studies have generated continuing controversy (eg Huston 1997; Wardle et al. 2000; Leps 2004), leading some reviewers to conclude that the results of BEF experiments are too variable to draw general conclusions (Giller et al. 2004; Thompson and Starzomski 2007).”
• Positive effects of plant species diversity on productivity in the absence of legumes (2003, background): “…that the productivity of grassland ecosystems increases with increasing species richness (Tilman et al. 1996; Tilman et al. 1997a; Hector et al. 1999; Tilman et al. 2001) has however, sparked an intense debate (Aarssen 1997; Huston 1997; Huston et al. 2000; Wardle et al. 2000; Loreau et al. 2001).”