Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives

By B. Middleton, J. Grace. 2004

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Complementarity among species in horizontal versus vertical rooting space (2008, background): “Evidence for positive effects of species richness on ecosystem functioning has rapidly accumulated in recent years (as reviewed e.g. in Balvanera et al. 2006; Cardinale et al. 2006; Hooper et al. 2005; Kinzig et al. 2002; Loreau et al. 2002).”
Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem (2003, background): “Synthesis and consensus are emerging, however, and the central challenges are being identified (Hughes & Petchey 2001; Loreau & Hector 2001; Loreau et al. 2002b) for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become a predictive science.”
Does spatial pattern matter to ecosystem functioning? Insights from biological soil crusts (2005, neutral): “A large set of experimental, observational and modelling studies have shown that attributes such as the number, relative abundance and identity of species forming a community have the potential to influence these ecosystem features (Jones & Lawton 1995; Grime 2001; Loreau, Naeem & Inchausti 2002).”
LINKING PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES: A GLOBAL STUDY (2005, background): “Yet another line of research indicates that community diversity, per se, drives important ecosystem functions (Tilman et al. 2001, Loreau et al. 2002).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “…and more ecosystem variables were measured in different experiments, and first reviews appeared that summarized effects of biodiversity on ecosystem variables in different compartments of the ecosystem (e.g., Loreau et al. 2002; Hooper et al. 2005; Balvanera et al. 2006; Cardinale et al. 2006).”
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. (2022, background): “…that draws researchers from these different fields to functional traits is the hope they offer of moving beyond species to a more mechanistic understanding of ecosystem structure and function (Cadotte et al., 2011; Díaz et al., 2013; Funk et al., 2017; Hooper et al., 2002; Tilman et al., 1997).”
Multidecadal stability of benthic community structure in a high-Arctic glacial fjord (van Mijenfjord, Spitsbergen) (2007, background): “Change in community structure may also indicate functional consequences of climatic or human-induced (e.g., fishing effects, eutrophication) alterations to the system (Loreau et al. 2002).”
The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity. (2007, background): “To address such questions, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged during the last decade as a vigorous new research area linking community and ecosystem ecology (see general syntheses in Loreau et al. 2001, 2002; Hooper et al. 2005).”
Emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in an evolutionary food-web model (2011, background): “There is mounting awareness of the essential role of species richness in ecosystem functioning (Naeem et al. 1994; Tilman et al 1996; Hector et al. 1999; Díaz and Cabido 2001; Loreau et al. 2001; Kinzig et al. 2001; Loreau et al. 2002; Hooper et al. 2005; Naeem et al. 2009).”
Food web complexity and higher‐level ecosystem services (2003, background): “…mostly plant communities, and have documented that taxonomic and functional-group diversity influences a range of ecosystem services such as primary production, nutrient fluxes and decomposition rates (Daly 1997; Chapin et al. 2000; Loreau et al. 2001; Kinzig et al. 2002; Loreau et al. 2002).”
Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology (2010, background): “…1988), ‘ecological stoichiometry’ (Sterner and Elser, 2002), ‘ecosystem engineering’ (Jones et al., 1994), and ‘biodiversity and ecosystem functioning’ (Loreau et al., 2002) have emerged to illustrate how the numbers and types of plants and animals that inhabit an ecosystem can directly control…”