The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

J Barlow, F França, TA Gardner, CC Hicks, GD Lennox… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …

Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity

SJ Brandl, DB Rasher, IM Côté… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are in global decline. Reversing this trend is a primary management objective
but doing so depends on understanding what keeps reefs in desirable states (ie …

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

Y Huang, Y Chen, N Castro-Izaguirre, M Baruffol… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in
grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to …

Functional traits and ecosystem services in ecological restoration

MB Carlucci, PHS Brancalion… - Restoration …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The application of a functional trait‐based approach to ecological restoration is receiving
growing attention worldwide, but lack of knowledge on functional traits and how they link to …

Give predators a complement: Conserving natural enemy biodiversity to improve biocontrol

WE Snyder - Biological control, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural enemy biodiversity reflects both the number of species attacking pests (species
richness) and their relative abundances (species evenness). Recent experimental work …

Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils

L Yang, D Ning, Y Yang, N He, X Li, CR Cornell… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial biodiversity is crucial for maintaining ecosystem functions. As climate change
progresses at both global and regional scales, there is a need to understand microbial …

Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs

FM França, CE Benkwitt, G Peralta… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tropical forests and coral reefs host a disproportionately large share of global biodiversity
and provide ecosystem functions and services used by millions of people. Yet, ongoing …

Biodiversity increases ecosystem functions despite multiple stressors on coral reefs

CE Benkwitt, SK Wilson, NAJ Graham - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - nature.com
Positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) highlight the
importance of conserving biodiversity to maintain key ecosystem functions and associated …

Overview of birdclef 2020: Bird sound recognition in complex acoustic environments

S Kahl, M Clapp, WA Hopping, H Goëau… - … 2020-Conference and …, 2020 - inria.hal.science
Passive acoustic monitoring is a cornerstone of the assessment of ecosystem health and the
improvement of automated assessment systems has the potential to have a transformative …

How does habitat fragmentation affect the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship?

J Liu, M Wilson, G Hu, J Liu, J Wu, M Yu - Landscape ecology, 2018 - Springer
Context The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been a
central topic in ecology for more than 20 years. While experimental and theoretical studies …