Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?

By D. Srivastava, M. Vellend. 2005

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

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Citations in the corpus

Nitrogen addition reduced ecosystem stability regardless of its impacts on plant diversity (2019, background): “…functioning and stability towards consideration of the impacts of anthropogenic activities on both biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (De Laender et al., 2016; Ives & Carpenter, 2007; Srivastava & Vellend, 2005), and on both biodiversity and ecosystem stability (Ives & Carpenter, 2007).”
Experimental design and the outcome and interpretation of diversity-stability relations (2011, methodology): “The use of mean population variability has primarily been limited to studies conducted in multi-trophic aquatic systems (Romanuk and Kolasa 2004, Steiner 2005, Vogt et al. 2006, Romanuk et al. 2009) precluding comparisons that are not confounded by trophic complexity.”
Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (2009, background): “During the past two decades ecologists have devoted considerable effort to understanding functional significances of biodiversity (Kinzig et al. 2002; Loreau et al. 2002; Hooper et al. 2005; Srivastava & Vellend 2005 ).”
Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales (2009, background): “This particularly refers to the functional component of biodiversity, which is supposed to be fundamental to the provision of ecosystem services (Dı́az et al. 2007a, but see Srivastava and Vellend 2005 for a critical review).”
Biodiversity‐ecosystem function research: Insights gained from streams (2010, background): “Increasing the relevance of BEF research to biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management should be a top priority (Srivastava and Vellend, 2005; Thompson and Starzomsky, 2007).”
Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation (2008, methodology): “This relationship, however, varies according to the ecosystems (grassland, trees), the specific site characteristics, the species and the number of trophic levels studied, the experimental methods used, and the type of traits measured (Srivastava & Vellend 2005; Balvanera et al .”
Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function (2019, background): “Indeed, lack of standardized terminology can be source of complexity in ecology (Fauth et al., 1996), and ecosystem function itself is interchangeably defined as service, process, and function (e.g. Franklin et al., 1981, Lamont, 1995, Srivastava & Vellend, 2005).”
Biodiversity and the functioning of seagrass ecosystems (2006, background): “…a rigorous ecological understanding of the causes and consequences of invasion (Sax et al. 2005) and of how invasion is affected by native species richness (Levine & D’Antonio 1999, Stachowicz & Tilman 2005) will be important in predicting ecosystem-level consequences of changing biodiversity.”