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Enhancing ecosystem services: Designing for multifunctionality [PDF]
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2012 I t is increasingly recognized that ecosystem services provide a foundation for the well-being of individuals and society (MEA 2005). Land managers typically strive to enhance particularly desirable services. For example, farmers plant crops and manage the soil and hydrologic conditions to favor crop production.
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Weeds Enhance Multifunctionality in Arable Lands in South-West of France
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 The current challenge in agriculture is to move from intensively managed to multifunctional agricultural landscapes that can simultaneously provide multiple ecological functions (multifunctionality), thus ensuring the delivery of ecosystem services ...
Sabrina Gaba +10 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 BackgroundConsiderable attention has been given to how different aspects of biodiversity sustain ecosystem functions. Herbs are a critical component of the plant community of dryland ecosystems, but the importance of different life form groups of herbs ...
Hao Guo +14 more
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Template for using biological trait groupings when exploring large-scale variation in seafloor multifunctionality [PDF]
, 2017 Understanding large-scale spatial variation in ecosystem properties and associated functionality is key for successful conservation of ecosystems. This study provides a template for how to estimate differences in ecosystem functionality over large ...
Hewitt, Judi +4 more
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Global patterns and abiotic drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in dominant natural ecosystems
Environment International, 2022 The potential patterns and processes of ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) across global ecosystems are largely unknown, which limits our understanding of how ecosystems respond to drivers. Here we compile a global dataset that consists of 973 unique sites across the forest, grassland, and shrub ecosystems. We identify a critical global pattern of hump-
Yi Wang +7 more
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Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes. [PDF]
, 2020 Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally.
Abades, Sebastián +12 more
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mSystems, 2021 Understanding the ecological roles of rare and abundant species in the restoration of soil ecosystem functions is crucial to remediation of heavy metal-polluted soil.
Min Xu +7 more
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Enhancing economic multifunctionality without compromising multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality via forest enrichment. [PDF]
Sci AdvEnriching tree species–poor and less productive forests by introducing economically valuable species is a strategy proposed for achieving multipurpose forest management. However, empirical evidence from managed and mature forests on the impact of this enrichment on ecological (multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality) and economic dimensions ...
Topanotti LR +19 more
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A polyocular framework for research on multifunctional farming and rural development [PDF]
, 2008 The paradox of multifunctionality is that, on the one hand, the specialized functionalities of agriculture only arise because of the functional differentiation of social systems and scientific disciplines and, on the other hand, multifunctionality can ...
Alrøe, Hugo F. +2 more
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Global Ecology and ConservationHuman-influenced soil moisture significantly shapes the biodiversity effects on ecosystem functions in temperate forests. However, its role in regulating the biodiversity effects on ecosystem multifunctionality at different stages of stand development ...
Feifei Zhao +8 more
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