• Biology
• Published 2004
• DOI:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13253.x

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments

@inproceedings{Giller2004BiodiversityEO,
  title={Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments},
  author={Paul S. Giller and Helmut Hillebrand and Ulrike-G. Berninger and Mark O. Gessner and Stephen J. Hawkins and Pablo Inchausti and Cheryl Inglis and Heather M. Leslie and Bj{\"o}rn Malmqvist and Michael T Monaghan and Peter J. Morin and Gregory D. O’Mullan},
  year={2004}
}

• Paul S. Giller, Helmut Hillebrand, +9 authors Gregory D. O’Mullan

Recent experiments, mainly in terrestrial environments, have provided evidence of the functional importance of biodiversity to ecosystem processes and properties. Compared to terrestrial systems, aquatic ecosystems are characterised by greater propagule and material exchange, often steeper physical and chemical gradients, more rapid biological processes and, in marine systems, higher metazoan phylogenetic diversity. These characteristics limit the potential to transfer conclusions derived from… CONTINUE READING

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