Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services

P Balvanera, AB Pfisterer, N Buchmann, JS He… - Ecology …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Concern is growing about the consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem functioning,
for the provision of ecosystem services, and for human well being. Experimental evidence …

Big answers from small worlds: a user's guide for protist microcosms as a model system in ecology and evolution

F Altermatt, EA Fronhofer, A Garnier… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Laboratory microcosm experiments using protists as model organisms have a long tradition
and are widely used to investigate general concepts in population biology, community …

[BOOK][B] Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: an ecological and economic perspective

S Naeem, DE Bunker, A Hector, M Loreau, C Perrings - 2009 - books.google.com
How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

Biodiversity loss, trophic skew and ecosystem functioning

JE Duffy - Ecology letters, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Experiments testing biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning have been criticized on the
basis that their random‐assembly designs do not reflect deterministic species loss in nature …

How do different measures of functional diversity perform?

OL Petchey, A Hector, KJ Gaston - Ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity can influence ecosystem functioning through changes in the amount of resource
use complementary among species. Functional diversity is a measure of biodiversity that …

Biomonitoring of human impacts in freshwater ecosystems: the good, the bad and the ugly

N Friberg, N Bonada, DC Bradley, MJ Dunbar… - Advances in ecological …, 2011 - Elsevier
It is critical that the impacts of environmental stressors on natural systems are detected,
monitored and assessed accurately in order to legislate effectively and to protect and restore …

Linking species traits and demography to explain complex temperature responses across levels of organization

DJ Wieczynski, P Singla, A Doan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Microbial communities regulate ecosystem responses to climate change. However,
predicting these responses is challenging because of complex interactions among …

Function-specific response to depletion of microbial diversity

H Peter, S Beier, S Bertilsson, ES Lindström… - The ISME …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Recent meta-analyses suggest that ecosystem functioning increases with biodiversity, but
contradictory results have been presented for some microbial functions. Moreover …

Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and food webs in fresh waters: assembling the jigsaw puzzle

GUY Woodward - Freshwater Biology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Dramatic advances have been made recently in the study of biodiversity–ecosystem
functioning (B‐EF) relations and food web ecology. These fields are now starting to …

Exploring the functional significance of forest diversity: A new long-term experiment with temperate tree species (BIOTREE)

M Scherer-Lorenzen, ED Schulze, A Don… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2007 - Elsevier
Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning have been mainly studied in experiments
that artificially create gradients in grassland plant diversity. Woody species were largely …