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Defining Soil Quality For Ecosystems and Ecosystem Functioning

1993
A number of approaches to defining soil quality have attempted to derive a single set of values based on uncontaminated or ‘undamaged’ soils (e.g. Lexmond et al 1986, Moen et al 1986). An ecological approach should be based on the soil requirements of the given soil biota system and the use/management aims of the system.
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Ecosystem Function of Biodiversity: A Summary

1994
In light of past and projected global changes in land use and climate, there has been increasing concern about the loss of genetic diversity in fragmented populations, the loss of species diversity through habitat destruction, and the role of landscape diversity in regional processes.
Schulze, E., Mooney, H.
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Regulatory Ecosystem Services and Supporting Ecosystem Functions

2020
This chapter provides the analysis and assessment of ten regulatory and supporting ES: R1, air quality regulation; R2, water quality regulation; R3, erosion and natural hazard regulation; R4, water flow regulation; R5, local climate regulation; R6, global climate regulation/carbon sequestration; R7, biodiversity promotion; R8, life cycle maintenance ...
Ján Černecký, Jana Špulerová, Viktória Ďuricová, Peter Mederly, Martin Jančovič, Juraj Hreško, Matej Močko   +6 more
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Biodiversity and Microbial Ecosystems Functioning

2014
All ecosystems are composed of multiple species performing numerous functions. This plurality identified as biodiversity has become a research topic of general importance for understanding how ecosystems function. The word “biodiversity” has subsequently received different interpretations we aim to describe.
Normand, Philippe, Duran, Robert, Le Roux, Xavier, Morris, Cindy E., Poggiale, Jean-Christophe   +4 more
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Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning

2012
The majority of research on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning in laboratories has concentrated on a few traits, but there is increasing evidence from the field that functional diversity controls ecosystem functioning more often than does species number. Given the importance of traits as predictors of niche complementarity and community structures, we (
Mulder, Christian, Boit, Alice, Mori, Shigeta, Vonk, J. Arie, Dyer, Scott D., Faggiano, Leslie, Geisen, Stefan, González, Angélica L., Kaspari, Michael, Lavorel, Sandra, Marquet, Pablo A., Rossberg, Axel G., Sterner, Robert W., Voigt, Winfried, Wall, Diana H.   +14 more
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Ecosystem services ecosystem function and the ecosystem approach

2014
This project focused on mapping the delivery of three ecosystems services each in one case study area in Scotland and then identify how the Scottish policies such as woodland expansion biodiversity, conservation and food production affect the land use.
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Assessment of the purifying function of ecosystems

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2000
Vorenhout, M., van Straalen, N.M., Eijsackers, H.J.P.   +2 more
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Long-term warming impacts grassland ecosystem function: Role of diversity loss in conditionally rare bacterial taxa

Science of the Total Environment, 2023
Kelu Chen, Yuanze Li
exaly  

Insects and ecosystem function

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1996
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Improvement of ecosystem quality in National Key Ecological Function Zones in China during 2000–2015

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
Weihua Liu, Honglin He, Mengyu Zhang
exaly