Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2016
Keywords
Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Food Chain, Research
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.007
Abstract
For the past 20 years, research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF) has only implicitly considered the underlying role of environmental change. We illustrate that explicitly reintroducing environmental change drivers in B-EF research is needed to predict the functioning of ecosystems facing changes in biodiversity. Next we show how this reintroduction improves experimental control over community composition and structure, which helps to provide mechanistic insight on how multiple aspects of biodiversity relate to function and how biodiversity and function relate in food webs. We also highlight challenges for the proposed reintroduction and suggest analyses and experiments to better understand how random biodiversity changes, as studied by classic approaches in B-EF research, contribute to the shifts in function that follow environmental change.
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, v. 31, issue 12, p. 905-915
Scholar Commons Citation
De Laender, Frederik; Rohr, Jason R.; Ashauer, Roman; Baird, Donald J; Berger, Uta; Eisenhauer, Nico; Grimm, Volker; Hommen, Udo; Maltby, Lorraine; and Meliàn, Carlos J, "Reintroducing Environmental Change Drivers in Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Research." (2016). Integrative Biology Faculty and Staff Publications. 357.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bin_facpub/357
Comments
complete list of authors:
Frederik De Laender, Jason R. Rohr, Roman Ashauer, Donald J. Baird, Uta Berger, Nico Eisenhauer, Volker Grimm, Udo Hommen, Lorraine Maltby, Carlos J. Meliàn, Francesco Pomati, Ivo Roessink, Viktoriia Radchuk, and Paul J. Van den Brink