The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

By Shahid Naeem, J. Emmett Duffy, E. Zavaleta. Science, 2012

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

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Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments (2018, neutral): “dimensions of biodiversity affect ecosystem functionality (Naeem et al., 2012).”
The key role of zooplankton in ecosystem services: A perspective of interaction between zooplankton and fish recruitment (2021, background): “5 dramatical decrease of functionality of our ecosystems and habitat changes due to anthropogenic exploitation of natural resources, environmental pollution and spread of invasive species (Naeem et al., 2012).”
Marine benthic ecological functioning over decreasing taxonomic richness (2015, background): “Hence, understanding the effects of species reductions on ecosystem function depends not only on the particular species' trait values potentially lost, but also on the whole composition of the species' traits in a system (Naeem et al., 2012; Petchey and Gaston, 2002).”
Biotic homogenization: Loss of avian functional richness and habitat specialists in disturbed Andean temperate forests (2015, background): “These two indices are independent from each other and both measure different aspects of the distribution and complementarity of species in the functional niche volume (Naeem et al., 2012; Tilman et al., 2001).”
Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation ☆ (2015, background): “Many attempts to justify support for conserving natural areas and biodiversity rely predominantly on either ecosystem service values to humans (e.g., food, jobs, medicine) or biodiversity's intrinsic worth (Cardinale et al., 2012; Naeem et al., 2012).”
How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces (2015, background): “the breadth of functions performed by species in an assemblage (Petchey & Gaston, 2006), is closely related to the rates of ecosystems processes (Mouillot et al., 2011; Naeem et al., 2012) and is shaped by environmental conditions and anthropogenic disturbances (Flynn et al.”
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests (2016, background): “4), the ongoing species loss in forest ecosystemsworldwide (1, 21) could substantially reduce forest productivity and thereby forest carbon absorption rate, which would in turn compromise the global forest carbon sink (40).”
Species contribute differently to the taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity of freshwater fish communities (2014, background): “Ecosystem managers and conservationists have similarly begun to broaden their conservation objectives to include multiple facets of diversity and the preservation of ecosystem services (Naeem et al., 2012), requiring a more comprehensive management approach.”
Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems (2013, background): “This biotic impoverishment may, in turn, alter the biogeochemical and dynamic properties of ecosystems [9].”