Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality.

ABSTRACT: Society values landscapes that reliably provide many ecosystem functions. As the study of ecosystem functioning expands to include more locations, time spans, and functions, the functional importance of individual species is becoming more apparent. However, the functional importance of individual species does not necessarily translate to the functional importance of biodiversity measured in whole communities of interacting species. Furthermore, ecological diversity at scales larger than neighborhood species richness could also influence the provision of multiple functions over extended time scales. We created experimental landscapes based on whole communities from the world's longest running biodiversity-functioning field experiment to investigate how local species richness (α diversity),

SUBMITTER: Pasari JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3690867 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature