Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

A Gonzalez, RM Germain, DS Srivastava… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily
focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale …

Ecological networks across environmental gradients

JM Tylianakis, RJ Morris - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Ecological networks have a long history in ecology, and a recent increase in network
analyses across environmental gradients has revealed important changes in their structure …

Ecological impacts of freshwater algal blooms on water quality, plankton biodiversity, structure, and ecosystem functioning

CA Amorim, A do Nascimento Moura - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Harmful algal blooms are among the emerging threats to freshwater biodiversity that need to
be studied further in the Anthropocene. Here, we studied freshwater plankton communities …

Niche breadth: causes and consequences for ecology, evolution, and conservation

KA Carscadden, NC Emery… - … Quarterly Review of …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and
conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …

Trophic network architecture of root-associated bacterial communities determines pathogen invasion and plant health

Z Wei, T Yang, VP Friman, Y Xu, Q Shen… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Host-associated bacterial communities can function as an important line of defence against
pathogens in animals and plants. Empirical evidence and theoretical predictions suggest …

Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships

I Laforest-Lapointe, A Paquette, C Messier, SW Kembel - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has demonstrated links between plant
diversity and ecosystem functions such as productivity,. At other trophic levels, the plant …

Energy flux: the link between multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

AD Barnes, M Jochum, JS Lefcheck… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Relating biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in natural communities has become a
paramount challenge as links between trophic complexity and multiple ecosystem functions …

Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: implications for ecosystem function and conservation

TP Bregman, CH Sekercioglu, JA Tobias - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
The fragmentation of forests is a dominant human impact worldwide with major implications
for the conservation and management of ecosystems. Although many studies have …

A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

N Eisenhauer, H Schielzeth, AD Barnes… - Advances in ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has
prompted biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most …

Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity

Y Li, B Schmid, A Schuldt, S Li, MQ Wang… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Forests sustain 80% of terrestrial biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services.
Biodiversity experiments have demonstrated that plant diversity correlates with both primary …