De Laender, Frederik, Rohr, Jason R, Ashauer, Roman orcid.org/0000-0002-9579-8793 et al. (11 more authors) (2016) Reintroducing Environmental Change Drivers in Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Research. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 905–915. ISSN 0169-5347
Abstract
For the past 20 years, research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF) has only implicitly considered the underlying role of environmental change. We illustrate that explicitly reintroducing environmental change drivers in B-EF research is needed to predict the functioning of ecosystems facing changes in biodiversity. Next we show how this reintroduction improves experimental control over community composition and structure, which helps to provide mechanistic insight on how multiple aspects of biodiversity relate to function and how biodiversity and function relate in food webs. We also highlight challenges for the proposed reintroduction and suggest analyses and experiments to better understand how random biodiversity changes, as studied by classic approaches in B-EF research, contribute to the shifts in function that follow environmental change.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | richness,biodiversity,modeling,traits,environmental change,food webs,Food Chain,Ecosystem,Research,Biodiversity |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2016 11:43 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:22 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.007 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.007 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106947 |
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