Understanding how biodiversity affects functioning of ecosystems requires integrating
diversity within trophic levels (horizontal diversity) and across trophic levels (vertical …

▪ Abstract It has often been argued that conserving biodiversity is necessary for maintaining
ecosystem functioning. We critically evaluate the current evidence for this argument …

Accelerating rates of species extinction have prompted a growing number of researchers to
manipulate the richness of various groups of organisms and examine how this aspect of …

The relationship between biological diversity and ecological stability has fascinated
ecologists for decades. Determining the generality of this relationship, and discovering the …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

The biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationship is central in community ecology.
Its drivers in competitive systems (sampling effect and functional complementarity) are …

The flow of energy and nutrients between trophic levels is affected by both the trophic
structure of food webs and the diversity of species within trophic levels. However, the …

Biodiversity and food chain length each can strongly influence ecosystem functioning, yet
their interactions rarely have been tested. We manipulated grazer diversity in seagrass …

Several theoretical studies propose that biodiversity buffers ecosystem functioning against
environmental fluctuations, but virtually all of these studies concern a single trophic level, the …

Increasing species richness of primary producers or consumers is proposed to increase
primary and secondary production; however, the consequences of biodiversity change …