Biodiversity, productivity and stability in real food webs

By Boris Worm, J. Emmett Duffy. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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Ecosystem consequences of diversity depend on food chain length in estuarine vegetation (2005, background): “In summary, our results support suggestions that the ecosystem impacts of biodiversity loss, and their implications for societally important ecosystem services, may often be trophically mediated (Duffy 2003; Thébault & Loreau 2003; Worm & Duffy 2003).”
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs (2005, background): “…4.5, 2.5 and 0.1, and standard deviations 1.25, 0.25 and 0.0016 respectively Impact of trophic position of species loss Recent theory and experiments predict potentially opposing influences of diversity on primary productivity at adjacent trophic levels (Worm and Duffy 2003; Duffy et al. 2003).”
Emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in an evolutionary food-web model (2011, background): “…decades of intense efforts, even basic questions such as those concerning the relationship between Theor Ecol stability and complexity of communities are still vigorously contested (May 1972; Pimm and Lawton 1977; Ives et al. 2000; Jansen and Kokkoris 2003; Kondoh 2003; Worm and Duffy 2003).”
Consumer effects decline with prey diversity (2004, background): “Net diversity effects 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS may thus depend on trophic structure (Worm & Duffy 2003).”
Ultraviolet radiation shapes seaweed communities (2006, background): “…and, thus, trophic interactions in aquatic habitats may be of stronger ecological outreach, e.g., in driving algal recruitment (Diaz-Pulido and McCook 2003), community succession (Farrell 1991) or mediating stability-diversity-productivity relationships of communities (Worm and Duffy 2003).”
The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity. (2007, background): “They found that increasing enemy richness reduced aphid densities, and that increasing plant richness increased aphid survival by approximately the same amount, with diversity effects at different trophic levels essentially cancelling one another out, as suggested by Worm & Duffy (2003).”
Biodiversity and the functioning of seagrass ecosystems (2006, background): “Lowdiversity systems often function approximately as simple linear food chains with strong trophic cascades, as shown in temperate lakes (Carpenter et al. 1985, Jones & Sayer 2003), high-latitude kelp beds (Estes et al. 1998), and the boreal ocean (Worm & Myers 2003).”
Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity-productivity pattern. (2011, background): “…and the diversity–productivity relationship (e.g., Naeem et al. 1994, Tilman et al. 1997, 2001), two major themes of community and ecosystem ecology, have been treated separately (Worm and Duffy 2003); however, our data suggest that they are interrelated processes that should be examined together.”
GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “The relationships between biodiversity, productivity, and stability are often bidirectional, and changes in biodiversity can be both a cause and a consequence of changes in productivity and stability (180).”
A conceptual framework for marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (2007, background): “Finally, we also need to know about the relationships between the species, functions and the productivity of the ecosystem (Worm & Duffy 2003).”