Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions
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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions. / Oliver, Tom H.; Heard, Matthew S.; Isaac, Nick J.B. et al.
In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 30, No. 11, 11.2015, p. 673-684.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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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 and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
SN - 0169-5347
IS - 11
ER -