TY - JOUR

T1 - Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

AU - Oliver, Tom H.

AU - Heard, Matthew S.

AU - Isaac, Nick J.B.

AU - Roy, David B.

AU - Procter, Deborah

AU - Eigenbrod, Felix

AU - Freckleton, Rob

AU - Hector, Andy

AU - Orme, C. David L.

AU - Petchey, Owen L.

AU - Proença, Vânia

AU - Raffaelli, David

AU - Suttle, K. Blake

AU - Mace, Georgina M.

AU - Martín-López, Berta

AU - Woodcock, Ben A.

AU - Bullock, James M.

PY - 2015/11

Y1 - 2015/11

N2 - Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and management is focused on the provision of ecosystem functions and services under current environmental conditions, yet this could lead to inappropriate management guidance and undervaluation of the importance of biodiversity. The maintenance of ecosystem functions and services under substantial predicted future environmental change (i.e., their ‘resilience’) is crucial. Here we identify a range of mechanisms underpinning the resilience of ecosystem functions across three ecological scales. Although potentially less important in the short term, biodiversity, encompassing variation from within species to across landscapes, may be crucial for the longer-term resilience of ecosystem functions and the services that they underpin.

AB - Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and management is focused on the provision of ecosystem functions and services under current environmental conditions, yet this could lead to inappropriate management guidance and undervaluation of the importance of biodiversity. The maintenance of ecosystem functions and services under substantial predicted future environmental change (i.e., their ‘resilience’) is crucial. Here we identify a range of mechanisms underpinning the resilience of ecosystem functions across three ecological scales. Although potentially less important in the short term, biodiversity, encompassing variation from within species to across landscapes, may be crucial for the longer-term resilience of ecosystem functions and the services that they underpin.

KW - ecosystem services

KW - functional diversity

KW - recovery

KW - redundancy

KW - resistance

KW - risk

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84975706595&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009

DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009

M3 - Scientific review articles

C2 - 26437633

VL - 30

SP - 673

EP - 684

JO - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

JF - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

SN - 0169-5347

IS - 11

ER -