The quest for a mechanistic understanding of biodiversity–ecosystem services relationships

Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service

(2015) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Moose browsing alters tree diversity effects on birch growth and insect herbivory

(2015) Evalyne W. Muiruri et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies

(2015) Patrick Venail et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Management by proxy? The use of indices in applied ecology

(2015) Philip A. Stephens et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

(2015) Enrique Valencia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   Nature Communications

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

(2014) Patricia Balvanera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

(2014) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

(2014) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking ecosystem characteristics to final ecosystem services for public policy

(2014) Christina P. Wong et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Herbivore effect traits and their impact on plant community biomass: an experimental test using grasshoppers

(2014) Hélène Deraison et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what's known and what's next?

(2014) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   OIKOS

Perennial grasslands enhance biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services in bioenergy landscapes

(2014) B. P. Werling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

(2014) Mark A. Bradford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah

(2014) R. M. Pringle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Whose conservation?

(2014) G. M. Mace   SCIENCE

Ecosystem Services as a Contested Concept: a Synthesis of Critique and Counter-Arguments

(2014) Matthias Schröter et al.   Conservation Letters

Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments

(2014) Camilo Mora et al.   Scientific Reports

Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: A systematic review

(2014) P.A. Harrison et al.   Ecosystem Services

EBI: An index for delivery of ecosystem service bundles

(2013) K. Van der Biest et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Variability in ecosystem service measurement: a pollination service case study

(2013) Kate N Liss et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Exploring the ecological constraints to multiple ecosystem service delivery and biodiversity

(2013) Lindsay C. Maskell et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant functional effects on ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

(2013) Karl Grigulis et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Is the relationship between algal diversity and biomass in North American lakes consistent with biodiversity experiments?

(2013) Emily K. Zimmerman et al.   OIKOS

Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality

(2013) J. R. Pasari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

(2013) Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Functional diversity and management mediate aboveground carbon stocks in small forest fragments

(2013) Carly Ziter et al.   Ecosphere

Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem service supply, biodiversity, and habitat conservation status in Europe

(2012) J. Maes et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

How many dimensions of biodiversity do we need?

(2012) Olga Lyashevska et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Quantifying and Mapping Ecosystem Services Supplies and Demands: A Review of Remote Sensing Applications

(2012) Yohannes Zergaw Ayanu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Yu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Species richness matters for the quality of ecosystem services: a test using seed dispersal by frugivorous birds

(2012) D. Garcia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale-up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services

(2011) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2011) David Mouillot et al.   PLoS One

Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

(2011) B. Phalan et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship

(2011) Georgina M. Mace et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being

(2010) Thomas O. McShane et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Tree Diversity Explains Variation in Ecosystem Function in a Neotropical Forest in Panama

(2010) Maria C. Ruiz-Jaen et al.   BIOTROPICA

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: Carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation

(2010) Catherine Potvin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The impact of proxy-based methods on mapping the distribution of ecosystem services

(2010) Felix Eigenbrod et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Sustaining multiple ecosystem functions in grassland communities requires higher biodiversity

(2010) E. S. Zavaleta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes

(2010) C. Raudsepp-Hearne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatial congruence between biodiversity and ecosystem services in South Africa

(2009) Benis Egoh et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

(2009) Erik Nelson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities

(2009) Barbara J. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Linking biodiversity and ecosystems: towards a unifying ecological theory

(2009) M. Loreau   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biodiversity Conservation and the Millennium Development Goals

(2009) J. D. Sachs et al.   SCIENCE

Global congruence of carbon storage and biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2009) Bernardo B.N. Strassburg et al.   Conservation Letters

Ecosystem services: Classification for valuation

(2008) Brendan Fisher et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Exponential Decline of Deep-Sea Ecosystem Functioning Linked to Benthic Biodiversity Loss

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR OVERALL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

(2008) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Editorial

(2008) Marcel Holyoak   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

(2008) R. Naidoo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values

(2008) E. B. Barbier et al.   SCIENCE

Mangrove forests: Resilience, protection from tsunamis, and responses to global climate change

(2007) Daniel M. Alongi   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE