Does functional redundancy exist

By Michel Loreau. 2004

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

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Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil (2013, background): “Since different species can have the same function in ecosystems, functional redundancy predicts that the loss of species does not necessarily alter ecosystem functioning because of their replacement by other species for maintaining processes (Loreau, 2004).”
Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming (2021, background): “In contrast, complementarity effects, including niche differentiation and facilitation, can lead to transgressive over- yielding (Loreau, 2004).”
Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies (2015, background): “The third and final assumption is that such functional differentiation 120 enhanced if, for example, expression of a greater variety of traits allows species to better 122 exploit all of the available resources (Tilman et al. 1997, Loreau 2004, Reich et al. 2012, 123 Srivastava et al. 2012).”
The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities (2009, background): “Thus, density compensation is inversely related to complementarity (Loreau 2004).”
Structure, functions and interguild relationships of the soil nematode assemblage in organic vegetable production (2012, background): “Diversity thus underpins functional resilience whereby an ecosystem service continues even if conditions become unfavorable for some components of the guild (Ferris, 2010a; Loreau, 2004).”
Loss of soil microbial diversity exacerbates spread of antibiotic resistance (2019, background): “Investigating the consequences of loss in biodiversity for the process and functioning of ecosystems is thus of considerable interest (Swift et al., 1998; Chapin et al., 2000; Hunt and Wall, 2002; Loreau, 2004; Wardle et al., 2011; Perveen et al., 2014).”
Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales. (2016, background): “Although it is unlikely that any two species will be totally redundant in terms of multiple traits [71], partial redundancy between species – species sharing part of their functional niches – is common, and could allow communities to lose some species without losing ecological functions.”
Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure. (2006, background): “In this context complex models can give invaluable insights into the underlying mechanisms that drive community composition and structure (Loreau, 2004; Tilman, 2004) even though such models are very difficult to parameterize.”
A synthesis of subdisciplines: predator–prey interactions, and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (2004, background): “…rampant evidence of a sampling effect but not resource partitioning, even when resource partitioning at larger scales is responsible for coexistence in the regional species pool, which is itself a prerequisite for a sampling effect to occur (Mouquet et al. 2002; Cardinale et al. 2004; Loreau 2004).”
The role of environmental generalist species in ecosystem function (2005, background): “…conditions with constitutive and i apaci ers h class re of o logi ance t ult eir c rce) v ood w ; C n e naly and s ural s y s he Lotka–Volterra approach to predicting the outcomes of ecological interactions (Case, 1990; Looigen, 1998; Pound et al., 2002; Vandermeer et al., 2002; Loreau, 2004).”