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

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

(2014) Patricia Balvanera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Dominant graminoids support restoration of productivity but not diversity in urban wetlands

(2013) James M. Doherty et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Effects of predator richness on prey suppression: a meta-analysis

(2013) John N. Griffin et al.   ECOLOGY

Consumer diversity across kingdoms supports multiple functions in a coastal ecosystem

(2013) M. J. S. Hensel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO2 and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment

(2013) N. Eisenhauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recovery of a top predator mediates negative eutrophic effects on seagrass

(2013) B. B. Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evidence that evolutionarily diverse assemblages result in higher productivity

(2013) M. W. Cadotte   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consumers mediate the effects of experimental ocean acidification and warming on primary producers

(2013) C. Alsterberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Physiological effects of diet mixing on consumer fitness: a meta-analysis

(2012) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait vs. phylogenetic diversity as predictors of competition and community composition in herbivorous marine amphipods

(2012) R. J. Best et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental climate change weakens the insurance effect of biodiversity

(2012) Johan S. Eklöf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Realistic losses of rare species disproportionately impact higher trophic levels

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

Global patterns in the impact of marine herbivores on benthic primary producers

(2012) Alistair G. B. Poore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

(2012) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

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

Connell and Slatyer's models of succession in the biodiversity era

(2011) E. Maggi et al.   ECOLOGY

Interactive effects of losing key grazers and ecosystem engineers vary with environmental context

(2011) TP Crowe et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Polychaete invader enhances resource utilization in a species-poor system

(2011) Agnes M. L. Karlson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of Total Resources, Resource Ratios, and Species Richness on Algal Productivity and Evenness at Both Metacommunity and Local Scales

(2011) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   PLoS One

Dominance, Biomass and Extinction Resistance Determine the Consequences of Biodiversity Loss for Multiple Coastal Ecosystem Processes

(2011) Thomas W. Davies et al.   PLoS One

The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2011) M. T. Burrows et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Predator diversity stabilizes and strengthens trophic control of a keystone grazer

(2010) J. N. Griffin et al.   Biology Letters

The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services

(2010) Edward B. Barbier et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Higher diversity of deposit-feeding macrofauna enhances phytodetritus processing

(2010) Agnes M. L. Karlson et al.   ECOLOGY

Consequences of realistic patterns of biodiversity loss: an experimental test from the intertidal zone

(2010) Meaghan K. Walker et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Consumer effects on ecosystem functioning in rock pools: roles of species richness and composition

(2010) JN Griffin et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Grazer diversity affects resistance to multiple stressors in an experimental seagrass ecosystem

(2010) Rachael E. Blake et al.   OIKOS

Marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and carbon cycles

(2010) G. Beaugrand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The Impact of Climate Change on the World's Marine Ecosystems

(2010) O. Hoegh-Guldberg et al.   SCIENCE

Declines in predatory fish promote bloom-forming macroalgae

(2009) Britas Klemens Eriksson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The consequences of consumer diversity loss: different answers from different experimental designs

(2009) Jarrett E. Byrnes et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems: a summary of 164 experimental manipulations of species richness

(2009) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   ECOLOGY

Short and long term consequences of increases in exotic species richness on water filtration by marine invertebrates

(2009) Jarrett Byrnes et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Consumer Diversity Enhances Secondary Production by Complementarity Effects in Experimental Ciliate Assemblages

(2009) Stefanie D. Moorthi et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Predator richness has no effect in a diverse marine food web

(2009) Mary I. O’Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Complementarity effects drive positive diversity effects on biomass production in experimental benthic diatom biofilms

(2009) Bart Vanelslander et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of plant species richness and composition on epifaunal colonization in brackish water angiosperm communities

(2009) Camilla Gustafsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Effects of plant diversity on primary production and species interactions in brackish water angiosperm communities

(2009) T Salo et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Consumer diversity indirectly changes prey nutrient content

(2009) H Hillebrand et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Relative importance of biodiversity and the abiotic environment in mediating an ecosystem process

(2009) JA Godbold et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Effects of changes in number, identity and abundance of habitat-forming species on assemblages of rocky seashores

(2009) E Maggi et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Consequences of climate-driven biodiversity changes for ecosystem functioning of North European rocky shores 

(2009) SJ Hawkins et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Spatial heterogeneity increases the importance of species richness for an ecosystem process

(2009) John N. Griffin et al.   OIKOS

Biodiversity effects on productivity and stability of marine macroalgal communities: the role of environmental context

(2009) Katharyn E. Boyer et al.   OIKOS

Are there direct and cascading effects of changes in grazer and predator species richness in a model system with heterogeneously distributed resources?

(2009) Jonas Ericson et al.   Marine Biodiversity

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

(2008) John J. Stachowicz et al.   ECOLOGY

SIMULATED PREDATOR EXTINCTIONS: PREDATOR IDENTITY AFFECTS SURVIVAL AND RECRUITMENT OF OYSTERS

(2008) Nessa E. O'Connor et al.   ECOLOGY

RELATIVE AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF PLANT AND GRAZER RICHNESS IN A BENTHIC MARINE COMMUNITY

(2008) John F. Bruno et al.   ECOLOGY

PREDATOR DIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: DENSITY MODIFIES THE EFFECT OF RESOURCE PARTITIONING

(2008) John N. Griffin et al.   ECOLOGY

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR OVERALL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

(2008) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   ECOLOGY

Herbivore and predator diversity interactively affect ecosystem properties in an experimental marine community

(2008) James G. Douglass et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cascading effects of predator richness

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

Biodiversity Effects on Aquatic Ecosystem Functioning - Maturation of a New Paradigm

(2008) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF HYDROBIOLOGY

Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding

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

Grazer diversity effects in an eelgrass–epiphyte–microphytobenthos system

(2008) Sybill Jaschinski et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional diversity predicts overyielding effect of species combination on primary productivity

(2008) John N. Griffin et al.   OIKOS

Consumer and resource diversity effects on marine macroalgal decomposition

(2008) Jasmin A. Godbold et al.   OIKOS

Effects of Algal Diversity on the Production of Biomass in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nutrient Environments: A Microcosm Experiment

(2008) Jerome J. Weis et al.   PLoS One

Functional consequences of realistic biodiversity changes in a marine ecosystem

(2008) M. E. S. Bracken et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complementarity in marine biodiversity manipulations: Reconciling divergent evidence from field and mesocosm experiments

(2008) J. J. Stachowicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

(2008) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   SCIENCE