Over the past several decades, a rapidly expanding field of research known as biodiversity
and ecosystem functioning has begun to quantify how the world's biological diversity can, as …

Over 100 gigatons of terrestrial plant biomass are produced globally each year. Ninety
percent of this biomass escapes herbivory and enters the dead organic matter pool, thus …

In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been a
core ecological research topic over the past decades. Although a key hypothesis is that the …

Evaluating the quality of ecosystems in terms of biological patrimony and functioning is of
critical importance in the actual context of intensified human activities. Microbial diversity is …

Understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is a major goal of ecology.
Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem function and service provided to …

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

Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments address ecosystem‐level
consequences of species loss by comparing communities of high species richness with …

The conversion of natural forest to oil palm plantation is a major current threat to the
conservation of biodiversity in South East Asia. Most animal taxa decrease in both species …

Human activities pollute water, air, and soil, which has a negative impact on the
environment. Despite the significant efforts made in recent years to clean up the …