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NATURE
Volume 486, Issue 7401, Pages 59-67Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature11148
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- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [EF-0553768]
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- State of California
- NFS [DEB-104612]
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Training Network (BESTNet) (NSF) [0639252]
- NERC [ESPA010001] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1046121] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1046121] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0639252] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1031061] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Natural Environment Research Council [ESPA010001] Funding Source: researchfish
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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.
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