Biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes

By Michel Loreau, N. Mouquet, Andrew Gonzalez. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003

934 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. F. Isbell
3. C. Kremen
4. Francesco de Bello
5. David Tilman
6. Jane Cowles
7. Garry D. Peterson
8. T. Tscharntke

In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. C. Kremen
3. Michel Loreau
4. B. Cardinale
5. F. Isbell
6. David Tilman
7. Nicholas A. J. Graham
8. Fons van der Plas

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Tscharntke
2. J. Emmett Duffy
3. B. Cardinale
4. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
5. Michel Loreau
6. Francesco de Bello
7. J. Bruno
8. J. Tylianakis

Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Biodiversity in the Functioning of Freshwater and Marine Benthic Ecosystems (2004, positive): “This expansion to field scales seems particularly important given that recent theory predicts the effects of species diversity on ecosystem processes will be most pronounced at large spatial and long temporal scales, where maximal heterogeneity allows the full range of species traits to be expressed”
• Scenarios for Ecosystem Services: An Overview (2006, background): “Dispersal of species among patches in heterogeneous landscapes confers resilience to disturbances that affect only part of the landscape or seascape (Peterson et al. 1998, Nyström and Folke 2001, Loreau et al. 2003, Cardinale et al. 2004).”
• Warming leads to higher species turnover in a coastal ecosystem (2010, background): “Metacommunity theory (Loreau et al., 2003) and experiments (Matthiessen & Hillebrand, 2006) suggest that higher spatial beta-diversity (i.”
• Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology? (2005, background): “Such assemblages will be higher in diversity, and thus redundancy and resilience, than assemblages of low or high dispersal, in which competitive exclusion could reduce diversity (Loreau et al. 2003).”
• Why biodiversity is important to oceanography: potential roles of genetic, species, and trophic diversity in pelagic ecosystem processes (2006, background): “…consideration that underscores the importance of extending studies on biodiversity– ecosystem functioning, historically conducted at small spatial scales, to incorporate meta-community dynamics and linkages between different habitats (e.g. Loreau et al. 2003), particularly benthic–pelagic coupling.”
• DIVERSITY–PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS IN STREAMS VARY AS A FUNCTION OF THE NATURAL DISTURBANCE REGIME (2005, background): “…has been outlined in recent theoretical developments that suggest the processes of dispersal and colonization can generate local relationships between species diversity and productivity that reflect larger scale patterns (Loreau et al. 2003, Mouquet and Loreau 2003, Cardinale et al. 2004).”
• A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology. (2010, methodology): “…systems models offer an attractive framework for incorporating a mechanistic performance filter derived from first principles (e.g. Norberg et al. 2001; Chesson et al. 2002; Falster & Westoby 2003; Loreau et al. 2003; Tilman 2004; McGill & Brown 2007; Savage et al. 2007; Vincent & Vincent 2009).”
• Quantifying and interpreting functional diversity of natural communities: practical considerations matter (2006, background): “Traditionally, species diversity has been considered a surrogate for functional diversity in most studies linking biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (Díaz & Cabido 2001; Loreau et al. 2003).”
• Community Patterns in Source‐Sink Metacommunities (2003, background): “The best known is the competition-colonization trade-off (Levins and Culver 1971; Horn and MacArthur 1972; Tilman 1994), where the combination of community extinction and recolonization and appropriate trade-offs between species’ competitive and colonizing abilities explain a high level of species…”
• Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems (2016, background): “Complex and heterogeneous environments provide a larger variety of niches, i.e. a larger habitat space, than simple and homogenous environments, thereby determining the strength and direction of BEF relationships (Loreau et al. 2003; Cardinale 2011; Jousset et al. 2011).”
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, methodology): “Their notion of biodiversity as “insurance” against temporal fluctuations was later extended to consider biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes (Loreau et al. 2003).”
• Capturing the cornerstones of coral reef resilience: linking theory to practice (2008, background): “The role of biodiversity for the stability, function, and resilience of ecosystems has been heavily debated in the literature, but is argued to provide ecological insurance in the face of change (e.g., MacArthur 1955; Holling 1973; Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1981; Naeem et al. 1995; McGrady-Steed et al. 19”