Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ecosystem multifunctionality, a concept that
has developed in the largely separate fields of biodiversity–ecosystem function and land …

The contributions of soil microbial diversity for the multifunctionality of ecosystem functions
remain little understood despite the well-known importance of soil microbial communities for …

While the contribution of biodiversity to supporting multiple ecosystem functions is well
established in natural ecosystems, the relationship of the above-and below-ground diversity …

Biodiversity on the Earth is changing at an unprecedented rate due to a variety of global
change factors (GCFs). However, the effects of GCFs on microbial diversity is unclear …

Human wellbeing depends on ecosystem services, highlighting the need for improving the
ecosystem-service multifunctionality of food and feed production systems. We study Swiss …

In recent years there has been an upsurge of studies on ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF),
or the ability of ecosystems to simultaneously provide multiple functions and/or services. The …

Losses and gains in species diversity affect ecological stability,,,,,–and the sustainability of
ecosystem functions and services,,,,–. Experiments and models have revealed positive …

The inherent complexity of high‐diversity systems can make them particularly difficult to
understand. The relatively recent introduction of functional approaches, which seek to infer …

Biodiversity encompasses multiple attributes such as the richness and abundance of
species (taxonomic diversity), the presence of different evolutionary lineages (phylogenetic …