Two decades of intensive research have provided compelling evidence for a link between
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF). Whereas early B-EF research concentrated …

Aim An important issue regarding biodiversity concerns its influence on ecosystem
functioning. Experimental work has led to the proposal of mechanisms such as niche …

Biologists have long known that predators play a key role in structuring ecological
communities, but recent research suggests that predator richness–the number of genotypes …

Marine ecosystems are experiencing rapid and pervasive changes in biodiversity and
species composition. Understanding the ecosystem consequences of these changes is …

Complexity is well accepted as one of the primary drivers of biodiversity, however, empirical
support for such positive associations is often confounded with surface area and …

We review how intertidal biodiversity is responding to globally driven climate change,
focusing on long-term data from rocky shores in the British Isles. Physical evidence of …

Food webs are known to have myriad trophic links between resource and consumer
species. While herbivores have well‐understood trophic tendencies, the difficulties …

It is well established that species richness of primary producers and primary consumers can
enhance efficiency of resource uptake and biomass production of respective trophic levels …

Global change affects ecosystem functioning both directly by modifications in
physicochemical processes, and indirectly, via changes in biotic metabolism and …

The use of functional traits to explain how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning has
attracted intense interest, yet few studies have a priori altered functional diversity, especially …