The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems.

By B. Cardinale, Kristin L Matulich, David U Hooper, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, J. Emmett Duffy, Lars Gamfeldt, P. Balvanera, M. O’Connor, Andrew Gonzalez. American-Eurasian journal of botany, 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. David Tilman
3. Barbara C. Schmid
4. Michael J. Follows
5. Bess Ward
6. S. Dutkiewicz
7. Peter B. Reich
8. F. Isbell

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Peter B. Reich
2. Barbara C. Schmid
3. David Tilman
4. J. Emmett Duffy
5. F. Isbell
6. M. Scherer‐Lorenzen
7. B. Cardinale
8. J. van Ruijven

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Peter B. Reich
2. David Tilman
3. Barbara C. Schmid
4. Hans Pretzsch
5. D. Forrester
6. J. Emmett Duffy
7. M. Scherer‐Lorenzen
8. Han Y. H. Chen

Citations in the corpus

• Microbial richness and composition independently drive soil multifunctionality (2017, background): “The importance of biodiversity for ecosystem functions and services has been shown (Cardinale et al., 2011; Tilman, Isbell, & Cowles, 2014), however, biodiversity is extremely complex, and involves different components including, but not limited to, species richness (number of taxa) and composition…”
• Testing the effects of diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality using a multivariate model (2015, background): “The biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) relationship has been widely researched over the past few decades and ecosystem functions such as biomass production or resistance to weed invasion are generally reduced as biodiversity is lost (Hector et al. 1999; Cardinale et al. 2011; Finn et al. 2013).”
• Stand structural diversity rather than species diversity enhancesaboveground carbon storage in secondary subtropical forests in Eastern China (2016, background): “Alternatively, the dominance of productive species has a potent effect on aboveground biomass or C storage (Cardinale et al., 2011; Lasky et al., 2014; Prado-Junior et al., 2016; Tobner et al., 2016).”
• Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern (2012, background): “While the responses observed with individual functions were not always positive, as commonly found with other primary producers (Cardinale et al. 2011), we found evidence indicating a positive effect of species richness on ecosystemmultifunctionality.”
• Loss of habitat and connectivity erodes species diversity, ecosystem functioning, and stability in metacommunity networks (2017, background): “(a) (b) (c) Fr ag m en ta ti on S pe ci al I ss ue ecosystem experiments (Cardinale et al. 2011); initial loss of species from species rich communities results in little loss of biomass production.”
• Plant apparency, an overlooked driver of associational resistance to insect herbivory (2013, background): “The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) remains a key issue in ecology (Cardinale et al. 2011).”
• Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity (2019, background): “Studies suggest that diversity loss appears to coincide with a reduction in primary production rates and nutrient utilization efficiency (Cardinale et al., 2011; Reich et al., 2012), thereby altering the functioning of ecosystems and the services they provide.”
• Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests (2016, background): “in BPR (3, 28–30), as well as with experimental (27) and observational (14) studies on forest and nonforest ecosystems.”
• Deciphering the associations between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality driven by long‐term fertilization management (2018, background): “Soil biodiversity is not merely a response variable to the constant changes in soil microhabitats but is also a predictor of ecosystem functioning (Balvanera et al., 2013; Cardinale et al., 2011).”
• Links between community ecology theory and ecological restoration are on the rise (2018, background): “In light of the growing appreciation for the benefits of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning and services (e.g. Cardinale et al., 2011), restoration efforts increasingly focus on reinstating compositionally and functionally diverse biological communities in disturbed areas.”
• Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems categories and criteria (2015, background): “Ecological processes decline at an accelerating rate with loss of species (Cardinale et al., 2011).”