Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

By Karel Mokany, J. Ash, Stephen H. Roxburgh. 2008

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

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Species asynchrony and response diversity determine multifunctional stability of natural grasslands (2019, background): “Non-temporal selection effects are therefore partially explained by the mass ratio hypothesis (Grime, 1998; Mokany et al., 2008; Ruiz-Benito et al., 2014).”
Can CSR classification be generally applied outside Britain? (2010, methodology): “Analysis of the character and range of traits is currently seen as the most appropriate method of determining how traits co-vary, forming syndromes that affect survival (e.g. Reich et al. 1999; Dı́az et al. 2004; Garnier et al. 2006; Mokany et al. 2008).”
Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity–function relationships (2011, background): “It has been hypothesized that dominant species often have a great influence on ecosystem functioning, with some evidence of this occurring at least in grassland ecosystems (Mokany et al., 2008), and a similar relationship is likely in soils.”
Influence of forest cover and mesohabitat types on functional and taxonomic diversity of fish communities in Neotropical lowland streams (2012, background): “structure of communities is considered a better predictor of ecosystem functioning than species diversity itself (Tilman et al. 1997; Mokany et al. 2008; Mouillot et al. 2011).”
Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions (2013, background): “Nonetheless, a consensual view is that the increase in productivity associated with intercropping results not from the total number of species, but from the unique role of a few dominant species with adaptive traits and specific properties (Garnier et al. 2004; Mokany et al. 2008).”
Plant root traits affecting the resistance of soils to concentrated flow erosion (2012, background): “Evidence has shown that ecosystem processes are strongly influenced by the functional traits of individual species that compose the community (Díaz and Cabido, 2001; Garnier et al., 2004; Mokany et al., 2008).”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, methodology): “Different relationships were found between the CWM of various leaf traits and ANPP: ANPP was found to be related to CWM_leaf angle in Australian grasslands (Mokany et al. 2008), to CWM_leaf area in subalpine grasslands in the French Alps (Gross et al. 2008) Fig.”