Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions.
- Oliver TH School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK; NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK. Electronic address: t.oliver@reading.ac.uk.
- Heard MS NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
- Isaac NJB NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
- Roy DB NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
- Procter D Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK.
- Eigenbrod F University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
- Freckleton R University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
- Hector A Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Orme CDL Imperial College London, London, UK.
- Petchey OL Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Proença V Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Raffaelli D University of York, York, UK.
- Suttle KB Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Mace GM University College London, London, UK.
- Martín-López B Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
- Woodcock BA NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
- Bullock JM NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
- 2015-10-07
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- Trends in ecology & evolution. - 2015
ecosystem services
functional diversity
recovery
redundancy
resistance
risk
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Conservation of Natural Resources
Ecosystem
Forecasting
English
Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and management is focused on the provision of ecosystem functions and services under current environmental conditions, yet this could lead to inappropriate management guidance and undervaluation of the importance of biodiversity. The maintenance of ecosystem functions and services under substantial predicted future environmental change (i.e., their 'resilience') is crucial. Here we identify a range of mechanisms underpinning the resilience of ecosystem functions across three ecological scales. Although potentially less important in the short term, biodiversity, encompassing variation from within species to across landscapes, may be crucial for the longer-term resilience of ecosystem functions and the services that they underpin.
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- DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009
- PMID 26437633
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