Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in naturally assembled communities

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 ecological subfield on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) was born. This subfield was initially dominated by...

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Published in:Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2019-08, Vol.94 (4), p.1220-1245
Main Author: van der Plas, Fons
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abiotic factors
Animals
Aquatic ecosystems
Biodiversity
Biodiversity loss
Biomass
Carbon sequestration
Communities
Community composition
Composition
context dependence
Decomposition
Ecological function
Ecosystem assessment
ecosystem functioning
ecosystem multifunctionality
Ecosystems
environment
Food Chain
Functional groups
global change
land use
Phylogeny
Plant reproduction
Pollination
Prey
Soil
spatial scale
Trophic relationships
Wildlife conservation
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