The importance of rare species: a trait-based assessment of rare species contributions to functional diversity and possible ecosystem function in tall-grass prairies

Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse

(2013) A. S. MacDougall et al.   NATURE

Testing the Link between Functional Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning in a Minnesota Grassland Experiment

(2013) Christopher M. Clark et al.   PLoS One

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Realistic losses of rare species disproportionately impact higher trophic levels

(2012) Matthew E. S. Bracken et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Common Ecology

(2011) Kevin J. Gaston   BIOSCIENCE

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

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

Biomass compensation and plant responses to 7 years of plant functional group removals

(2011) Jennie R. McLaren et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Valuing Common Species

(2010) K. J. Gaston   SCIENCE

Biodiversity change and ecosystem function in tropical forests

(2008) Owen T. Lewis   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

CONSEQUENCES OF DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF EVENNESS EFFECTS ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES

(2008) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Diversity–productivity relationships in two ecologically realistic rarity–extinction scenarios

(2008) Forest I. Isbell et al.   OIKOS

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE