Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

By David Tilman, F. Isbell, Jane Cowles. 2014

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production (2019, background): “It has long been recognized that biodiversity plays an important role in 152 the functioning of ecosystems (3), but the dependence of ecosystem services on biodiversity is 153 under debate.”
Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests (2018, background): “…changes in species diversity usually result in changes in multiple ecosystem processes, including those related to productivity, nutrient cycling, and stability, as well as to trophic interactions and associated biodiversity (e.g., Schulze & Mooney 1993; Tilman et al. 2014; Isbell et al. 2017).”
A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity (2019, background): “Several different types of approaches have been used to infer the importance of deterministic and stochastic processes in determining ecological communities (4), including multivariate analysis (15–17), null modeling (18–20), and theory-based approaches (2, 21).”
Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming (2021, methodology): “…crop system performance (net productivity, resource use efficiency, C storage) are used to assess function in studies of other ecosystems (see e.g. Tilman et al., 2014) and, as in these other systems, they tend to show positive BEF relationships in crop systems, certainly when starting from a low…”