Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

Water funds and payments for ecosystem services: practice learns from theory and theory can learn from practice

(2012) Rebecca L. Goldman-Benner et al.   ORYX

Response--Ecosystem Services: Free Lunch No More

(2012) A. P. Kinzig et al.   SCIENCE

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012–20

(2012) Anne Larigauderie et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

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

Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function

(2011) Ian T. Carroll et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems

(2011) Montserrat Vilà et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecosystem services, targets, and indicators for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

(2011) Charles Perrings et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale   NATURE

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Analyzing the effects of species gain and loss on ecosystem function using the extended Price equation partition

(2011) Jeremy W. Fox et al.   OIKOS

Paying for Ecosystem Services--Promise and Peril

(2011) A. P. Kinzig et al.   SCIENCE

The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science-Policy Interface

(2011) C. Perrings et al.   SCIENCE

Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Species Gains and Losses

(2011) D. A. Wardle et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship

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

Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Plant diversity enhances provision of ecosystem services: A new synthesis

(2010) Sandra Quijas et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review

(2010) Deborah K. Letourneau et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

Organismal traits are more important than environment for species interactions in the intertidal zone

(2010) Spencer A. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Species and genotype diversity drive community and ecosystem properties in experimental microcosms

(2010) Leigh C. Latta et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

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

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

Interaction strength, food web topology and the relative importance of species in food webs

(2010) Eoin J. O’Gorman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

Experimental design and the outcome and interpretation of diversity-stability relations

(2010) Veronik Campbell et al.   OIKOS

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

Dispersal scales up the biodiversity-productivity relationship in an experimental source-sink metacommunity

(2010) P. A. Venail et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Different Effects of Species Diversity on Temporal Stability in Single‐Trophic and Multitrophic Communities

(2009) Lin Jiang et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Effects of Natural Enemy Biodiversity on the Suppression of Arthropod Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2009) Deborah K. Letourneau et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities

(2009) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition

(2009) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY

DIVERSITY ENHANCES COVER AND STABILITY OF SEAWEED ASSEMBLAGES: THE ROLE OF HETEROGENEITY AND TIME

(2008) John J. Stachowicz et al.   ECOLOGY

Cascading effects of predator richness

(2008) John F Bruno et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real-world ecosystems

(2008) J Emmett Duffy   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding

(2008) Bernhard Schmid et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

(2008) M. W. Cadotte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs

(2008) E. L. Berlow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Niche Partitioning Increases Resource Exploitation by Diverse Communities

(2008) Deborah L. Finke et al.   SCIENCE

Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems

(2008) Jason M Tylianakis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY