Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances

By Michel Loreau. 2000

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

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Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. (2006, background): “However, the relative importance of functional diversity is reduced if variation in diversity is accompanied by other factors that affect ecosystem processes, such as changes in resource levels that occur over large spatial scales (Wardle et al. 1997b; Loreau 2000; Fridley 2002).”
Diversity decreases invasion via both sampling and complementarity effects (2005, background): “Such effects could be due to both the increased probability of presence of highly competitive species at high diversity (the sampling effect ; Huston 1997; Tilman et al. 1997) and to complementary resource use among species (Loreau 2000; Loreau & Hector 2001).”
Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) – Site water supply and fertility modify the mixing effect (2020, background): “Positive mixing effects are commonly explained by the complementary effect hypothesis (Aarssen, 1997; Loreau, 2000; Loreau and Hector, 2001; Fargione et al., 2007), under which complementarity arises from either facilitation, where one species improves the environmental conditions for another…”
Plant species richness and community productivity: why the mechanism that promotes coexistence matters (2002, background): “Because environmental variables are more likely to vary among sites than within sites, the former approach can be viewed as considering across-site relationships and the latter within-site relationships (Lawton et al. 1998; Loreau 1998b, 2000 ).”
BIODIVERSITY, INVASION RESISTANCE, AND MARINE ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: RECONCILING PATTERN AND PROCESS (2002, background): “For Ascidiella, a broadcast spawner, we examined in the lab the ability of various size classes of individuals to release mature gametes that could be fertilized, develop, and successfully settle onto benthic substrates.”
A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships (2014, background): “This idea has been established already early in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research (Tilman, 1999; Loreau, 2000; Petchey & Gaston, 2002).”
Direct and productivity‐mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness (2012, background): “The strong indirect, and additional weak direct, effect of fertilization on species richness underlines the importance of fertilization for affecting species richness through increases in productivity (Grime 1973; Silvertown 1980; Gough et al. 2000; Loreau 2000; Rajaniemi 2002; Schmid 2002; Stevens ”
The Design of Experimental Tree Plantations for Functional Biodiversity Research (2005, background): “There is growing consensus, however, that any biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning will arise from phenotypic variation between species, i.e., from their functional traits or from species’ interactions ( Loreau 2000 ), and even within species, i.e., from their age and stage classes or ecoty”
The Importance of Plant Provenance and Genotypic Diversity of Seed Material Used for Ecological Restoration (2008, background): “So, species diversity can have a buffering and stabilizing effect on the productivity of plant communities (Loreau 2000).”
Fisheries oceanography and the ecology of early life histories of fishes: a perspective over fifty years (2005, positive): “Ecosystem based management of fish populations, was suggested early-on by Walford (1956), yet interest in this approach is now renewed (e.g. Loreau, 2000; Pitcher, 2001; Link, 2002).”
Rapid biodiversity assessment of arthropods for monitoring average local species richness and related ecosystem services (2010, background): “This dependency may become aggravated in the prospect of major global environmental changes such as global warming and management changes in agriculture and forestry (Allison 2004; Kassar and Lasserre 2004; Loreau 2000; Loreau et al. 2003; Petchey et al. 1999).”
Moss-dominated biocrusts increase soil microbial abundance and community diversity and improve soil fertility in semi-arid climates on the Loess Plateau of China (2017, background): “…(the complementarity effect) and selection of extreme trait values (the selection effect), and it contributes to the stability and maintenance of ecosystem processes in the face of perturbations (long-term effects of biodiversity) (Loreau, 2000; Loreau et al., 2001; Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2016).”
THE INSURANCE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (2005, background): “Increasing species richness, i.e. the number of different species, increases the likelihood that those key species would be present in the system (Aarssen 1997, Huston 1997, Loreau 2000, Tilman et al. 1997b).”
EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE (2005, background): “Because many ecosystem properties fluctuate naturally over time, the difficult task is to determine the bounds of natural fluctuations to better understand whether human-induced fluctuations are outside these natural ranges of variability and therefore present a new threat to sustainability of ecosy”
Detritus processing, ecosystem engineering and benthic diversity: a test of predator–omnivore interference (2004, background): “Non-trophic interguild interactions of species from different functional groups, such as predators and detritivores, have important direct and indirect influences on community structure (Kerfoot & Sih 1987) and ecosystem functioning (Loreau 2000).”