Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes
Current and future ozone risks to global terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes
... terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes have re- ceived insufficient ...for biodiversity at different trophic levels, and for a range of eco- system processes and feedbacks, ...
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Current and future ozone risks to global terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes
... terrestria biodiversity and ecosystem processes have re - ceived insuicient aten on This is an important gap because feedbacks to the atmosphere may change as future O 3 eve s increase or decrease ...
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Higher biodiversity is required to sustain multiple ecosystem processes across temperature regimes
... Keywords: ecosystem functioning, environmental warming, functional redundancy, multifunctionality, species richness Received 25 April 2014 and accepted 12 June 2014 Introduction Biodiversity loss and ...
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Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in heterogeneous environments
... of ecosystem function Corophium volutator has the highest affect, and was recognised as a key ...of ecosystem function Corophium volutator had a very low influence and was found to contribute very little to ...
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Issues in Ecology. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Maintaining Natural Life Support Processes
... Critical processes at the ecosystem level influence plant productivity, soil fertility, water quality, atmospheric chemistry, and many other local and global environmental conditions that ultimately affect ...
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Biodiversity and ecosystem function in the bird's nest fern
... Understanding the ecological patterns and ecosystem processes of tropical rainforest canopies is becoming increasingly urgent in the face of widespread deforestation. However, accessing rainforest canopies ...
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Ecosystem effects of biodiversity manipulations in European grasslands
... Altering biodiversity through changes in the num- bers and types of plant species and functional groups in our experimental communities significantly affected all 11 ecosystem processes examined over ...
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BIODIVERSITY AT THE ECOSYSTEM LEVEL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES
... for biodiversity e-Science Andrew ...within biodiversity e-Science, including tools for such diverse tasks as phylogenetic analysis, ...the ecosystem and at the organis- mic level), the range of ...
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Processes that influence biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and stability in grasslands
... that biodiversity can be maintained by (i) stabilizing species interactions, such as niche partitioning and facilitation, and (ii) equalizing mechanisms, which decrease asymmetric competition by reducing average ...
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Biodiversity plays a key role in ecological processes and the delivery of ecosystem services, and its
... economic model integrating not only private costs but also external costs of a loss of species diversity.. 38.[r] ...
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Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil
... the ecosystem at Sourhope was perturbed by removing taxa using a biocide or by artificially manipulating their population numbers, and by subjecting plots to various treatments representative of anthropogenic ...
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The importance of biodiversity in cities and ecosystem services
... for ecosystem service provision; hence it is at the heart of the resources and processes that are supplied by natural ...ecosystems. Biodiversity provides: food; raw materials; fresh water; medicinal ...
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Stressor-induced biodiversity gradients: revisiting biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships
... that biodiversity and species identity combine in shaping ecosystem function- ing (Bruno et ...realistic biodiversity loss has started by removing rare and uncommon species from the community (Smith ...
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Responsibility and Sustainable Growth
... and processes and are already providing support for the sustainable use of biodiver- sity, particularly through training for environmental protec- ...of biodiversity and functions as think-tank and platform ...
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Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity in the Deep Sea (EuroDEEP)
... geochemical processes that shape the environment in which these communities ...of biodiversity within and between deep-sea habitats, their consequences for deep-sea ecosystem functioning and the ...
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Managing biodiversity for ecosystem services in apple orchards
... soil-based ecosystem services include nutrient cycling and decomposition of detritus by soil ...soil processes, despite their fundamental importance to food production (Barrios 2007; Gardenas et ...
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Biogeochemical dynamics and bioaccumulation processes in Manila clam: implications for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Ria de Aveiro Lagoon
... Results showed that multiple driving forces interacted together to determine site- specific impacts, resulting in different risks at local scale for the transferring of the metal(loid)s to the trophic chain. ...
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Biodiversity, ecosystem function and ecosystem service provision in saltmarsh and sand dune grasslands
... ‘Bottom-up’ processes such as resource limitation or ‘top-down’ processes such as population limitation by predators can be studied using a functional group approach (Chen & Wise, ...
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The importance of species traits in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research
... influence ecosystem properties or biogeochemical processes, and those that determine the response of an organism to environmental conditions (Lavorel & Garnier 2002; Hooper et ...
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Arguments for our Future Environment
... of ecosystem services requires an understanding of the contribution of ecosystems and the services they deliver to long-term human well-being, as well as the human demand for those ...of biodiversity are ...
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