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    Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: current knowledge and future challenges (2001)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2001-10-27
    Description: The ecological consequences of biodiversity loss have aroused considerable interest and controversy during the past decade. Major advances have been made in describing the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem processes, in identifying functionally important species, and in revealing underlying mechanisms. There is, however, uncertainty as to how results obtained in recent experiments scale up to landscape and regional levels and generalize across ecosystem types and processes. Larger numbers of species are probably needed to reduce temporal variability in ecosystem processes in changing environments. A major future challenge is to determine how biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem processes, and abiotic factors interact.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Loreau, M -- Naeem, S -- Inchausti, P -- Bengtsson, J -- Grime, J P -- Hector, A -- Hooper, D U -- Huston, M A -- Raffaelli, D -- Schmid, B -- Tilman, D -- Wardle, D A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Oct 26;294(5543):804-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire d'Ecologie, UMR 7625, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France. Loreau@ens.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11679658" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Ecology ; *Ecosystem ; *Environment ; Plant Physiological Phenomena
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Biodiversity effects on soil processes explained by interspecific functional dissimilarity (2004)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2004-11-06
    Description: The loss of biodiversity can have significant impacts on ecosystem functioning, but the mechanisms involved lack empirical confirmation. Using soil microcosms, we show experimentally that functional dissimilarity among detritivorous species, not species number, drives community compositional effects on leaf litter mass loss and soil respiration, two key soil ecosystem processes. These experiments confirm theoretical predictions that biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning can be predicted by the degree of functional differences among species.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Heemsbergen, D A -- Berg, M P -- Loreau, M -- van Hal, J R -- Faber, J H -- Verhoef, H A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Nov 5;306(5698):1019-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vrije Universiteit, Institute of Ecological Science, Department of Animal Ecology, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15528441" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; *Ecosystem ; Plant Leaves ; *Soil ; Soil Microbiology
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Biodiversity science evolves (2005)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2005-11-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dirzo, Rodolfo -- Loreau, Michel -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Nov 11;310(5750):943.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16284147" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; Congresses as Topic ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Ecosystem ; International Cooperation ; *Research
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity (2012)
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-09
    Description: The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit the Earth. So, too, do 7 billion people. Two decades ago, at the first Earth Summit, the vast majority of the world's nations declared that human actions were dismantling the Earth's ecosystems, eliminating genes, species and biological traits at an alarming rate. This observation led to the question of how such loss of biological diversity will alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the goods and services needed to prosper.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cardinale, Bradley J -- Duffy, J Emmett -- Gonzalez, Andrew -- Hooper, David U -- Perrings, Charles -- Venail, Patrick -- Narwani, Anita -- Mace, Georgina M -- Tilman, David -- Wardle, David A -- Kinzig, Ann P -- Daily, Gretchen C -- Loreau, Michel -- Grace, James B -- Larigauderie, Anne -- Srivastava, Diane S -- Naeem, Shahid -- England -- Nature. 2012 Jun 6;486(7401):59-67. doi: 10.1038/nature11148.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. bradcard@umich.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22678280" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; Climate Change/statistics & numerical data ; Consensus ; Ecology/methods/trends ; *Extinction, Biological ; *Human Activities ; Humans
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes (2015)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2015-09-05
    Description: Ecosystems exhibit surprising regularities in structure and function across terrestrial and aquatic biomes worldwide. We assembled a global data set for 2260 communities of large mammals, invertebrates, plants, and plankton. We find that predator and prey biomass follow a general scaling law with exponents consistently near (3/4). This pervasive pattern implies that the structure of the biomass pyramid becomes increasingly bottom-heavy at higher biomass. Similar exponents are obtained for community production-biomass relations, suggesting conserved links between ecosystem structure and function. These exponents are similar to many body mass allometries, and yet ecosystem scaling emerges independently from individual-level scaling, which is not fully understood. These patterns suggest a greater degree of ecosystem-level organization than previously recognized and a more predictive approach to ecological theory.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hatton, Ian A -- McCann, Kevin S -- Fryxell, John M -- Davies, T Jonathan -- Smerlak, Matteo -- Sinclair, Anthony R E -- Loreau, Michel -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Sep 4;349(6252):aac6284. doi: 10.1126/science.aac6284. Epub 2015 Sep 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada. i.a.hatton@gmail.com. ; Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada. ; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada. ; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada. ; Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, P.O. Box 661, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania. ; Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modeling, Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, 09200 Moulis, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26339034" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biomass ; *Databases, Factual ; *Food Chain ; Invertebrates ; Mammals ; Plankton
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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