Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real‐world ecosystems

By J. Emmett Duffy. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service. (2015, background): “These findings, however, have remained largely untested in real-world, larger scale systems (Duffy 2009; Cardinale et al. 2012).”
Moving on up: can results from simple aquatic mesocosm experiments be applied across broad spatial scales? (2011, background): “…our understanding of community ecology and ecosystem functioning (Fraser & Keddy, 1997; Jessup et al., 2004; Spivak et al., 2009b), informed theory (Pfisterer & Schmid, 2002; Cardinale et al., 2006), and provided insight to global processes (Benton et al., 2007; Duffy, 2009; O’Connor et al., 2009).”
The Mediterranean Sea under siege: spatial overlap between marine biodiversity, cumulative threats and marine reserves (2012, background): “Indeed, it is fundamental and critical for the understanding of biogeographic patterns and of evolutionary history; also it is linked to ecosystem functioning (e.g. Danovaro et al., 2008; Duffy, 2009).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “Finally, there has been a considerable debate about the relevance of experimental results for real-world ecosystems (Duffy 2009), and this debate is still continuing (Eisenhauer et al.”
Positive species diversity and above‐ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees (2017, background): “Studies on BEF conducted in forest ecosystems have often been criticized for failing to account for environmen- tal drivers and endogenous forest stand ageing that may be important in influencing functions in natural forests (Flombaum & Sala 2008; Duffy 2009; Willig 2011).”
The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems. (2011, methodology): “Because that data set has been used by several prior meta-analyses, all of which have described the methods used to collect and analyze the data ( Cardinale et al., 2006 , 2007 , 2009b ; Bruno and Cardinale, 2008 ; Cadotte et al., 2008 ; Srivastava et al., 2009 ), we limit our description of the…”
Organic versus conventional systems in viticulture: Comparative effects on spiders and carabids in vineyards and adjacent forests (2015, background): “…is certainly important to he functioning of ecosystems: insights from Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function (BEF) experiments are likely to underestimate, rather than overestimate, the importance of biodiversity to ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (Duffy, 2009).”
Soil microbial communities resistant to changes in plant functional group composition (2011, background): “…the consequences of decreased diversity on ecosystems, forming the body of research termed biodiversity ecosystem functioning (BDEF), but there is an on-going debate over the interpretation of the results and conclusions (see reviews by Balvanera et al., 2006; Duffy, 2009; Hooper et al., 2005).”