Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives on the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

By A. Symstad, F. Chapin, D. Wall, K. Gross, L. Huenneke, G. Mittelbach, D. Peters, David Tilman. 2003

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

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The functional consequences of random vs. ordered species extinctions (2005, background): “…community and ecosystem processes, the extent to which their results can be used to understand natural systems is uncertain (Schmid et al. 2001; Symstad & Tilman 2001; Bengtsson et al. 2002; Holt & Loreau 2002; Symstad et al. 2003; Cardinale et al. 2004; Covich et al. 2004; Giller et al. 2004).”
Ten Suggestions to Strengthen the Science of Ecology (2004, background): “This argument has been made in great detail in a series of recent articles (Hobbie 2003, Kratz et al. 2003, Rastetter et al. 2003, Symstad et al. 2003, Turner et al. 2003).”
APPLYING COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ANALYSIS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: EXAMPLES FROM POLLINATION AND CARBON STORAGE (2005, background): “…developed here provides a framework for going beyond the existing diversity–function debate by emphasizing other components of species composition than richness: relative abundance, species identity (which determines efficiency values), and relative contribution to function (Symstad et al. 2003).”
Relationship between plant species diversity and soil microbial functional diversity along a longitudinal gradient in temperate grasslands of Hulunbeir, Inner Mongolia, China (2008, background): “These studies demonstrate the importance of scale in determining the relationship between productivity and plant species diversity, and their results provide insights into how diversity influences ecosystem functioning at larger scale (Symstad et al. 2003).”
Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation? (2005, background): “However, some empirical studies suggest that regional processes are important in maintaining both diversity and ecosystem function (Symstad et al. 2003).”
Effects of species diversity on the primary productivity of ecosystems: extending our spatial and temporal scales of inference (2004, background): “We also need to know how the ‘openness’ of systems / that is, the exchange of propagules among the habitat patches that comprise natural ecosystems / might influence the diversityproductivity relationship ( Symstad and Tilman 2001, Holt and Loreau 2002, Giller et al. 2004).”
Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology? (2005, background): “…contrast, studies of biodiversity–function often examine communities whose structures differ markedly from those providing services in real landscapes (Diaz et al. 2003; Symstad et al. 2003; Larsen et al. 2005), and have been restricted to a small set of ecosystem processes (Schwartz et al. 2000).”
Reciprocal effects of host plant and natural enemy diversity on herbivore suppression: an empirical study of a model tritrophic system (2005, background): “…the small spatial scale preclude any of the potentially important effects that dispersal can exert over resource capture (Cardinale et al. 2003b, Symstad et al. 2003), the short time scale ignored reproduction and, thus, the numerical responses of populations that can be important aspects of…”
Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning. (2005, background): “…Balvanera et al. 2005); interspecific differences in abundance/biomass (Power et al. 1996); spatial and temporal variability of community structure (Symstad et al. 2003); the immediate response of the community following species loss (Ruesink & Srivastava 2001); and the longer-term feedbacks…”
DIVERSITY–PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS IN STREAMS VARY AS A FUNCTION OF THE NATURAL DISTURBANCE REGIME (2005, background): “…from the patterns observed across larger scales in natural ecosystems (Gross et al. 2000, Fridley 2001, Bengtsson et al. 2002, Chase and Leibold 2002, Symstad et al. 2003, Cardi- Manuscript received 3 November 2003; revised 12 May 2004; accepted 8 July 2004; final version received 24 August 2004.”
The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests (2011, background): “Productivity tended to increase species richness via feedback mechanisms which are still unclear, as shown by the many hypotheses that have been proposed, but are known to occur essentially across sites or latitudinal gradients (Waide et al., 1999; Loreau et al., 2001; Symstad et al., 2003).”