A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

By David U Hooper, E. Adair, B. Cardinale, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, B. Hungate, Kristin L Matulich, Andrew Gonzalez, J. Emmett Duffy, Lars Gamfeldt, M. O’Connor. Nature, 2012

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Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities (2014, background): “Recent analyses conclude that this descriptor may be a critical parameter of ecosystem sustainability for plants and animals (Wardle et al., 2011; Hooper et al., 2012).”
Meta-analysis of the impacts of global change factors on soil microbial diversity and functionality (2020, methodology): “Six types of candidate predictors were considered in the model selection analysis, that are, (1) climate factors, including MAT and MAP; (2) GCFs regimes, including GCF types, magnitude of W, percentage changes in precipitation, LUC types, N addition rate, P addition rate, K addition rate, and study”
Efficiency of Plant Breeding (2015, background): “Given the importance of agrobiodiversity and the dangers associated with its decline (Cardinale et al., 2012; Hooper et al., 2012), and given that many measures of genetic diversity are available (Mohammadi and Prasanna, 2003), we conclude that a measure of agrobiodiversity between varieties adopted”
Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity (2014, background): “…richness and ecosystem functions show that as species loss increases and the system approaches a monoculture, ecosystem processes such as primary production and decomposition on average decline, but also show a strongly increasing variance in response (Cardinale et al., 2012; Hooper et al., 2012).”
Contrasting patterns in species and functional-trait diversity of bees in an agricultural landscape (2015, background): “Biodiversity losses, such as those resulting from land-use intensification, can impair ecological functioning (e.g. Balvanera, Kremen & Mart ınez-Ramos 2005; Hooper et al. 2012).”
Marine biodiversity and ecosystem function relationships: The potential for practical monitoring applications (2015, neutral): “Such changes have potential implications for the provision of ecosystem services and societal bene ﬁ ts (Chapin et al., 1997; Covich et al., 2004; Solan et al., 2004; Worm et al., 2006; Atkins et al., 2011; Cardinale et al., 2012; Hooper et al., 2012; UK National Ecosystem Assessment, 2014).”
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, background): “In 2012, strikingly similar results were obtained by two studies that used different data sets to compare the impacts of plant diversity versus other factors on primary productivity (Hooper et al. 2012, Tilman et al. 2012).”
An improved model to predict the effects of changing biodiversity levels on ecosystem function (2013, background): “Loss of biodiversity can influence ecosystem functioning in natural and experimental systems, and across habitats and trophic levels (Balvanera et al. 2006; Cardinale et al. 2006, 2009; Hooper et al. 2012; Reich et al. 2012).”
Giant panda distributional and habitat‐use shifts in a changing landscape (2018, background): “Species conservation may be experiencing a resurgence in conservation circles following new evaluations of their importance to ecosystem function (Hooper et al., 2012), and other values to scientific and lay communities (Gascon et al., 2015; Richardson & Loomis, 2009).”