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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
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It is argued that human actions are dismantling the Earth’s ecosystems, eliminating genes, species and biological traits at an alarming rate, and the question of how such loss of biological diversity will alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the goods and services needed to prosper is asked.
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Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity
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It is shown that although productive species do indeed contribute to diversity effects, these contributions are equaled or exceeded by species complementarity, where biomass is augmented by biological processes that involve multiple species.
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Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems
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A formal meta-analysis of studies that have experimentally manipulated species diversity to examine how it affects the functioning of numerous trophic groups in multiple types of ecosystem suggests that the average effect of decreasing species richness is to decrease the abundance or biomass of the focal Trophic group, leading to less complete depletion of resources used by that group.
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Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest
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A gradient from near-primary, through old-growth secondary and plantation forests to complete clearance, for eight animal groups in the Mbalmayo Forest Reserve, south-central Cameroon is examined, indicating the huge scale of the biological effort required to provide inventories of tropical diversity, and to measure the impacts of tropical forest modification and clearance.
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Using local–regional richness plots to test for species saturation: pitfalls and potentials
1. Plots of local versus regional species richness are an exciting new tool for testing for species saturation in ecological communities. In this method, the local richness of a community is plotted…
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Why More Productive Sites Have More Species: An Experimental Test of Theory Using Tree‐Hole Communities
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In tree holes, the More Individuals Hypothesis is an insufficient explanation for increases in species richness with productivity because it neither accounts for the different processes of local coloni zation and extinction nor allows body size to correlate with extinction risk.
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Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?
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The conservation case is stronger for stability measures of function than stock and flux measures, in part because it is easier to attribute value unambiguously to stability and in partBecause stock and fluid measures of functions are anticipated to be more affected by multitrophic communities.
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Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos
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It is shown that species extinction is generally expected to reduce bioturbation, but the magnitude of reduction depends on how the functional traits of individual species covary with their risk of extinction.
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Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems.
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It is argued that PD may be useful in predicting ecosystem functions in a range of communities, from single-trophic to complex networks, and advocated for a synthetic approach that incorporates a deeper understanding of how traits and interactions are shaped by evolution.
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Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology?
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