Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments

By P. Giller, H. Hillebrand, U. Berninger, MO Gessner, S. Hawkins, P. Inchausti, C. Inglis, H. Leslie, B. Malmqvist, M. Monaghan and 2 more. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The Role of Biodiversity in the Functioning of Freshwater and Marine Benthic Ecosystems (2004, positive): “…several generations (Morin and McGrady-Steed 2004),the next step should be to move from relatively small, simple, closed experimental laboratory systems to larger, more open, interconnected experimental systems that more closely resemble natural ecosystems (Cardinale et al.2004,Giller et al.2004).”
Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and food webs in fresh waters: assembling the jigsaw puzzle (2009, methodology): “experiments and there is also the possibility that statistically ‘significant’ results have been overemphasized because it is harder to publish ‘non-relationships’, creating a potential bias in meta-analyses (Giller et al., 2004; Petchey et al., 2004; Hunter & Schmidt, 2004).”
Function and “functioning” in ecology: what does it mean? (2005, background): “It would be, in the words of Wright (1994), an accidental function, a ‘‘function as’’, in the same sense that I could use my laptop or a bone ‘‘as’’ a paperweight, even though nobody would claim that this was ‘‘the’’ function of these objects.”
Effects of species diversity on the primary productivity of ecosystems: extending our spatial and temporal scales of inference (2004, background): “Natural ecosystems, however, are composed of many different patch types (Giller et al. 2004).”
Reciprocal effects of host plant and natural enemy diversity on herbivore suppression: an empirical study of a model tritrophic system (2005, background): “A limited but growing number of studies suggest that diversity among trophic levels can act in concert to have opposing, or reinforcing influences on resource use in ways that can be either additive or non-additive (Price et al. 1980, Holt and Loreau 2002, Raffaelli et al. 2002, Giller et al. 2004).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: insights from aquatic systems (2004, background): “species loss? Giller et al. (2004) argue that the unique features of marine and freshwater systems provide ample”
Relationships between structure and function in streams contrasting in temperature (2009, methodology): “Direct measures of ecosystem function used in this study included organic matter transformation and algal biomass accrual (Gessner & Chauvet, 2002; Giller et al., 2004b).”
Invasion by the amphipod Gammarus pulex alters community composition of native freshwater macroinvertebrates (2006, background): “Biodiversity decline has prompted investigations into species functional roles and the consequences for both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem functioning (Ruesink & Srivastava, 2001; Bradford et al., 2002; Giller et al., 2004).”
BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN NUMBER AND IDENTITY OF SPECIES (2005, methodology): “We know that marine, terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems behave differently (Giller et al. 2004).”
Marine biodiversity and ecosystem function relationships: The potential for practical monitoring applications (2015, neutral): “This grouping generally agrees with that used by Giller et al. (2004), representing key functions that control and distribute resources in marine ecosystems (nutrients, energy, physical space/habitat), through interactions such as production, consumption and transformation.”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: issues of scale and trophic complexity (2006, background): “A more holistic approach is required, combining in situ estimates of ecosystem processes with modelling of the connectivity between habitat units (see also Giller et al. 2004).”
Why biodiversity is important to oceanography: potential roles of genetic, species, and trophic diversity in pelagic ecosystem processes (2006, background): “Several recent reviews have emphasized the potential influence of advection and flow on relationships between aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem processes (Biles et al. 2003, Covich et al. 2004, Giller et al. 2004).”