Biological diversity appears to enhance the resilience of desirable ecosystem states, which
is required to secure the production of essential ecosystem services. The diversity of …

Biodiversity is responsible for the provision of many ecosystem services; human well‐being
is based on these services, and consequently on biodiversity. In soil, earthworms represent …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) introduced a new framework for analyzing
social–ecological systems that has had wide influence in the policy and scientific …

Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of
things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we review how functional …

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Human domination of the biosphere has greatly altered ecosystems, often overwhelming
their capacity to provide ecosystem services critical to our survival. Yet ecological …

Empirical evidence for the response of soil carbon cycling to the combined effects of
warming, drought and diversity loss is scarce. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) plays a …

Predicting ecosystem responses to global change is a major challenge in ecology. A critical
step in that challenge is to understand how changing environmental conditions influence …

Microbial communities have a central role in ecosystem processes by driving the Earth's
biogeochemical cycles. However, the importance of microbial diversity for ecosystem …