Linking species diversity to the functioning of ecosystems: on the importance of environmental context

By B. Cardinale, K. Nelson, M. Palmer. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Does biodiversity make a difference? Relationships between species richness, evolutionary diversity, and aboveground live tree biomass across U.S. forests. (2014, background): “The relationship between biodiversity and productivity, therefore, may vary dynamically over both time and space as a result of spatial heterogeneity and disturbance regimes (Cardinale et al., 2000).”
Effects of species diversity on the primary productivity of ecosystems: extending our spatial and temporal scales of inference (2004, background): “Experiments have typically been performed at small spatial and short temporal scales in homogeneous environments to maximize experimental control ( Cardinale et al. 2000, Bengtsson et al. 2002, Giller et al. 2004).”
Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation? (2005, background): “Several theoretical studies have outlined potential mechanisms linking BDEF relationships at different scales (Bond & Chase 2002; Cardinale et al. 2000, 2004; Loreau & Mouquet 1999; Loreau et al. 2003; Peterson et al. 1998; Srivastava 2002; Tilman 1999).”
On the statistical significance of functional diversity effects (2004, result): “This result supports experiments showing environmental dependence of biodiversity effects ( Cardinale, Nelson & Palmer 2000; Fridley 2002) and cautions against extrapolating results of local experiments to regional or global scales.”
The potential utility of rodents and other small mammals as indicators of ecosystem 'integrity' of South African grasslands (2011, background): “…and disturbance (e.g. Wootton 1998; Hastwell and Huston 2001), and between species diversity and declines in ecosystem function, resilience and resistance (Grime 1998; Cardinale et al. 2000; Chapin et al. 2000; Johnson 2000; Loreau 2000; McCann 2000; Petchey 2000; Fonseca and Ganade 2001).”
Leaf diversity alters litter breakdown in a Piedmont stream (2004, background): “Such cases of environmental context (e.g., temperature, flow, disturbance regime) can explain how species richness alters ecosystem processes such as organic matter breakdown (Cardinale et al. 2000, Cardinale and Palmer 2002).”
Ecosystem Processes Performed by Unionid Mussels in Stream Mesocosms: Species Roles and Effects of Abundance (2004, background): “Finally, species roles often change with environmental context (Cardinale et al., 2000; Wellnitz & Poff, 2001).”
BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN NUMBER AND IDENTITY OF SPECIES (2005, background): “As it is not possible to manipulate or include all environmental circumstances within the design of any experiment, experiments must be run for a sufficient length of time that the environmental context can vary considerably (Allison et al. 1996, Cardinale et al. 2000, Crowe, in press).”
Microbial biogeography at the soil pore scale (2011, background): “Theoretical advances in ecosystem functioning have emphasized the importance of the environmental context in shaping the relationship between biodiversity and function (Cardinale et al., 2000; Mouquet et al., 2002).”
Diversity effects on production in different light and fertility environments: an experiment with communities of annual plants (2003, background): “Given that environmental control over the intensity and nature of plant competition has been widely documented (Keddy 1989; Goldberg 1990; Grime 2001), one might expect that plant mixture dynamics, and thus the effect of plant richness on mixture yield, should vary with environment (Austin et al . 1”
Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning. (2005, background): “…(Cameron 2002), two critical yet well-known observations have been lost: (i) environmental changes do not affect species composition randomly (Cardinale et al. 2000) and (ii) many other functionally important aspects of communities can be affected independently or in addition to species…”
Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation (2002, background): “Rapid rates of species extinction and homogenization of the world's biota provide compelling reasons for determining how changes in biodiversity might affect the functioning of ecosystem”
Function and “functioning” in ecology: what does it mean? (2005, background): “…and ecosystem functions (processes) seems to depend very much on the specific processes, species groups, and systems considered (Martinez 1996, Cardinale et al. 2000, Schwartz et al. 2000, Bellwood et al. 2003), even if biodiversity is considered just in terms of species numbers (but see…”