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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 +2 more
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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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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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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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Multifunctionality of landscapes - an ecosystem service perspective [PDF]
, 2021 With increasing population growth, changed consumption patterns and the resulting need for resources, the management and use of cultural landscapes has intensified during the last century.
Hölting, Lisanne
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Agronomy, 2023 Microorganisms play essential roles in soil-ecosystem multifunctionality. However, the contribution of their community assembly processes, composition, diversity, and keystone species to ecosystem multifunctionality is unclear, especially in tea ...
Ting Wang +10 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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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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Plant species composition and key-species abundance drive ecosystem multifunctionality [PDF]
Global biodiversity loss has generated great interest in the role of plant communities in driving ecosystem functions. There is limited understanding of how soil properties, plant richness and plant community composition interact to affect ecosystem ...
Zhang, Q +5 more
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