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Habitat Provision and Erosion Are Influenced by Seagrass Meadow Complexity: A Seascape Perspective

Diversity, 2023
Habitat complexity plays a critical role in shaping biotic assemblages and ecosystem processes. While the impacts of large differences in habitat complexity are often well understood, we know less about how subtle differences in structure affect key ...
Giulia Ferretto, Adriana Vergés, Alistair G. B. Poore, Tim M. Glasby, Kingsley J. Griffin   +4 more
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Restoring forests: regeneration and ecosystem function for the future

New forests, 2019
Conventions and policies for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation state the need for increased protection, restoration and climate change adaptation of forests. Much degraded land may be targeted for large-scale forest restoration, yet
M. Löf, P. Madsen, Marek Metslaid, J. Witzell, D. Jacobs   +4 more
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Trawling-induced change in benthic effect trait composition – A multiple case study

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
IntroductionThe importance of the response-effect trait dichotomy in marine benthic ecology has garnered recent attention. Response traits, characterising species responses to environmental variations, have been a dominant focus in the development of ...
Olivier Beauchard, Clare Bradshaw, Stefan Bolam, Justin Tiano, Clément Garcia, Emil De Borger, Emil De Borger, Pascal Laffargue, Mats Blomqvist, Irini Tsikopoulou, Nadia K. Papadopoulou, Christopher J. Smith, Jolien Claes, Karline Soetaert, Marija Sciberras   +14 more
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Determining Microbial Roles in Ecosystem Function: Redefining Microbial Food Webs and Transcending Kingdom Barriers

mSystems, 2019
Microorganisms can have a profound and varying effect on the chemical character of environments and, thereby, ecological health. Their capacity to consume or transform contaminants leads to contrasting outcomes, such as the dissipation of nutrient ...
Kim M. Handley
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To Feed or Not to Feed? Coral Reef Fish Responses to Artificial Feeding and Stakeholder Perceptions in the Aitutaki Lagoon, Cook Islands

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Feeding wild animals is a regular habit in ecotourism worldwide with poorly known consequences for ecosystem functioning. This study investigates how effective bread feeding is at attracting coral reef fish in the South Pacific, which feeding groups of ...
Natalie Prinz, Natalie Prinz, Richard Story, Stephen Lyon, Sebastian C. A. Ferse, Sebastian C. A. Ferse, Sonia Bejarano   +6 more
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Structural diversity as a predictor of ecosystem function

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Biodiversity is believed to be closely related to ecosystem functions. However, the ability of existing biodiversity measures, such as species richness and phylogenetic diversity, to predict ecosystem functions remains elusive.
E. LaRue, B. Hardiman, Jessica M. Elliott, S. Fei   +3 more
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Mussels and Local Conditions Interact to Influence Microbial Communities in Mussel Beds

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Microbiomes are increasingly recognized as widespread regulators of function from individual organism to ecosystem scales. However, the manner in which animals influence the structure and function of environmental microbiomes has received considerably ...
Edward Higgins, Thomas B. Parr, Thomas B. Parr, Caryn C. Vaughn   +3 more
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Phylogenetic constraints on ecosystem functioning [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2012
There is consensus that biodiversity losses will result in declining ecosystem functioning if species have different functional traits. Phylogenetic diversity has recently been suggested as a predictor of ecosystem functioning because it could approximate the functional complementarity among species.
Gravel, Dominique, Bell, Thomas, Barbera, Claire, Combe, Marine, Pommier, Thomas, Mouquet, Nicolas   +5 more
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The Effect of Elevation Gradient on Distribution and Body Size of Carabid Beetles in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve in Northeast Asia

Insects
The environment of mountain ecosystems can change greatly in short distances as elevation increases. The effects of elevation change on the distribution and body size of carabid beetles were investigated at elevations of 750–2600 m in the Changbaishan ...
Shengdong Liu, Jiaqi Tong, Mingfeng Xu, Qingfan Meng, Ying Shi, Hongrui Zhao, Yan Li   +6 more
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Do ecosystems have functions?

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
‘Ecosystem function’ and ‘ecosystem functioning’ became core keywords in the ecological literature on ecosystems, their structure, development and integrity.
Ulrich Krohs, Martin Zimmer
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