High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

By F. Isbell, V. Calcagno, Andy Hector, John Connolly, W. Stanley Harpole, Peter B. Reich, M. Scherer‐Lorenzen, Barbara C. Schmid, David Tilman, J. van Ruijven and 4 more. Nature, 2011

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Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (2017, background): “evidence that the provision of ecosystem services is related to aspects of biodiversity; there is a positive relationship between biodiversity and most ecosystem services (e.g., Hooper et al. 2005; Balvanera et al. 2006; Isbell et al. 2011; Gamfeldt et al. 2013).”
The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts (2014, background): “This is essential for understanding the impact of biodiversity loss on ecosystem function and ecosystem services, which operate at the local level (Fontaine et al. 2006; Isbell et al. 2011; Cardinale et al. 2012; Hooper et al. 2012).”
Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, background): “In particular, it is increasingly recognized that biodiversity eﬀects may be most relevant when multiple ecosystem functions are considered (e.g. Hector & Bagchi 2007; Zavaleta et al. 2010; Isbell et al. 2011; Pasari et al. 2013).”
Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs (2014, background): “Perspect Plant Ecol Evol Syst 14(2):89–96.”
Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide (2016, background): “…(Pimm et al. 1995; Barnosky et al. 2011) canmarkedly alter ecosystem processes and services if biotic erosion is accompanied by the loss of particular functions that are uniquely associated with the species that go extinct (Isbell et al. 2011; Cardinale et al. 2012; Naeem, Duffy & Zavaleta 2012).”
The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate (2015, background): “In total, we collected data that quantify key ecosystem functions and related variables: (1) aboveground biomass, (2) root biomass, (3) soil organic carbon, (4) soil nitrogen, (5) soil available nitrogen, (6) soil phosphorus, (7) plant nitrogen (nitrogen pools in aboveground biomass), and (8) plant ”
Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review (2017, neutral): “…has established that both taxonomic and functional aspects of biodiversity underpin ecosystem functioning and service delivery in grasslands (e.g. Isbell et al. 2011; Lange et al. 2015; Wright et al. 2017), forests (Verheyen et al. 2016), created wetlands (Means et al. 2016) and mesocosms (Bilá…”
Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling (2013, background): “Over the past two decades, diversity–ecosystem function experiments have shown that biodiversity is critical for maintaining ecosystem productivity, stability and other services (Isbell et al. 2011).”
How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale‐up to trade‐offs and synergies in ecosystem services (2012, background): “…investigated (Reiss et al. 2009), and only a few recent studies have demonstrated that increasing numbers of species are required to sustain levels in increasing numbers of ecosystem functions (Hector & Bagchi 2007; Gamfeldt, Hillebrand & Jonsson 2008; Zavaleta et al. 2010; Isbell et al. 2011).”