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Multifunctionality of an Urbanized Coastal Marine Ecosystem [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Coastal marine ecosystems provide numerous invaluable services and benefits to humankind. However, urbanization of coastal areas has homogenized and reduced the biodiversity of the surrounding marine environment and the sustainability of the multiple ecosystem services it provides.
Anand Archana, David Michael Baker
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Trade-offs and synergies in the ecosystem service demand of urban brownfield stakeholders [PDF]

, 2020
Brownfield site redevelopment presents an opportunity to create urban green spaces that provide a wide range of ecosystem services. It is important, therefore, to understand which ecosystem services are demanded by stakeholders and whether there are ...
Goddard, Mark, Le Provost, Gaëtane, Manning, David A.C., Manning, Peter, Washbourne, Carla-Leanne   +4 more
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Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

Nature, 2007
Biodiversity loss can affect ecosystem functions and services. Individual ecosystem functions generally show a positive asymptotic relationship with increasing biodiversity, suggesting that some species are redundant. However, ecosystems are managed and conserved for multiple functions, which may require greater biodiversity.
Hector, A, Bagchi, R
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Assessing Ecosystem Services and Multifunctionality for Vineyard Systems [PDF]

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2017
Vineyards shape important economic, cultural, and ecological systems in many temperate biomes. Like other agricultural systems, they can be multifunctional landscapes that not only produce grapes, but also for example serve as wildlife habitat, sequester carbon, and are places of rich traditions.
Klara J. Winkler, Klara J. Winkler, Joshua H. Viers, Kimberly A. Nicholas   +3 more
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Floodplain management in temperate regions : is multifunctionality enhancing biodiversity? [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Floodplains are among the most diverse, dynamic, productive and populated but also the most threatened ecosystems on Earth. Threats are mainly related to human activities that alter the landscape and disrupt fluvial processes to obtain ...
Balázs, Lukács, Biró, Marianna, Borics, Gábor, Bunting, Stuart W, Damm, Christian, Essl, Franz, Euller, Katrin, Gasso, Viktor, Hainz-Renetzeder, Christa, Henle, Klaus, Hermann, Anna, Hoffmann, Maurice, Hudin, Stephanie, Jaquier, Sophie, Kanka, Robert, Kropik, Michaela, Krug, Andreas, Lauwaars, Sophie G, Mauerhofer, Volker, Pusch, Martin, Schindler, Stefan, Schulz-Zunkel, Christiane, Sebesvari, Zita, van der Sluijs, Theo, Wrbka, Thomas, Zulka, Klaus Peter   +25 more
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Drivers and Mechanisms of Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Secondary Tropical Forests. [PDF]

Ecosystems
Abstract Tropical forests provide vital ecosystem functions and services, yet global change is intensifying disturbance regimes and expanding the extent of young secondary forests. The question is to what extent these young forests recover ecosystem multifunctionality and under which conditions recovery proceeds faster.
Matsuo T, Amissah L, van der Sande MT, der Plas FV, Kok J, Abdul SM, Chojnacki L, Kuzee T, Khulpu L, Poorter L.   +9 more
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A niche for ecosystem multifunctionality in global change research [PDF]

Global Change Biology, 2018
AbstractConcern about human modification of Earth's ecosystems has recently motivated ecologists to address how global change drivers will impact the simultaneous provisioning of multiple functions, termed ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF). However, metrics of EMF have often been applied in global change studies with little consideration of the ...
Darren P. Giling, Léa Beaumelle, Helen R. P. Phillips, Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer, Olga Ferlian, Felix Gottschall, Carlos Guerra, Jes Hines, Agnieszka Sendek, Julia Siebert, Madhav P. Thakur, Andrew D. Barnes   +12 more
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Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality [PDF]

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017
Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been a core ecological research topic over the last decades. Although a key hypothesis is that the diversity of functional traits determines ecosystem functioning, we do not know how much trait diversity is needed to maintain multiple ecosystem functions simultaneously ...
Gross, Nicolas, Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Liancourt, Pierre, Berdugo, Miguel, Gotelli, Nicholas J., Maestre, Fernando T.   +5 more
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Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2016
AbstractDespite the importance of microbial communities for ecosystem services and human welfare, the relationship between microbial diversity and multiple ecosystem functions and services (that is, multifunctionality) at the global scale has yet to be evaluated.
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Fernando T. Maestre, Peter B. Reich, Thomas C. Jeffries, Juan J. Gaitan, Daniel Encinar, Miguel Berdugo, Colin D. Campbell, Brajesh K. Singh   +8 more
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The functional effects of a dominant consumer are altered following the loss of a dominant producer

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Human impacts on ecosystems are resulting in unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss worldwide. The loss of species results in the loss of the multiple roles that each species plays or functions (i.e., “ecosystem multifunctionality”) that it provides. A
Samuel A. Mahanes, Cascade J. B. Sorte, Matthew E. S. Bracken   +2 more
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