… plant biodiversity and the productive function and stability of … and the efficiency and stability
of ecosystem function. It should … , however; improved ecosystem function will be invested in …

Regarding ideal levels of species richness, the data are few and unclear t has become a
tenet of conserva-tionists that biodiversity is crucial to the earth's" life-support system": as we …

… and ecosystem productivity. It is suggested that the positive effects of biodiversity on
ecosystem functioning in … The role of biological diversity for the functioning and stability of pond …

… ecosystems, and because such research is relevant to the debate about the worldwide loss
of biodiversity … in isolation from other drivers affecting ecosystem stability, and in fact these …

… Management of forests to achieve specific biodiversity objectives requires that we understand
the … and ecosystem stability have been identified ty. To suggest that an ecosystem lacks …

… it shifts into a different state (stability domain) with different controls on structure and function
and distinguished ecosystem resilience from engineering resilience. Engineering resilience …

… firm statements about the scale of biodiversity in soils, or about … The recent UK Soil
Biodiversity Programme (SBP) has … biodiversity, carbon flux and resilience in the soil ecosystem. …

… a synthesis of concepts linking biodiversity to ecosystem processes, of underlying reasons
… both the stability of populations within a community of competing species and the stability of …

… Early attempts to determine how biodiversity impacts ecological stability relied … ecological
communities with a greater number of species and trophic linkages tend to be more stable in …

… stability … ecological scales, extrinsic determinants of biodiversity such as disturbance regimes
and site history may be the primary determinants of certain measures of community stability…