Microbes are the unseen majority in soil and comprise a large portion of life's genetic
diversity. Despite their abundance, the impact of soil microbes on ecosystem processes is …

This paper reviews the concepts of ecosystem resilience, resistance, and stability in forests
and their relationship to biodiversity, with particular reference to climate change. The report …

Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in
evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional …

Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities
that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, from local to …

Closer-to-Nature Forest Management is a new concept proposed in the EU Forest Strategy
for 2030, which aims to improve the conservation values and climate resilience of …

Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of
things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we review how functional …

Predicting ecosystem responses to global change is a major challenge in ecology. A critical
step in that challenge is to understand how changing environmental conditions influence …

Ecological investigations are increasingly using functional diversity in order to understand
different patterns, such as species occurrence, species competitive abilities, and the …

Ecology Letters (2009) 12: 1405–1419 Abstract The global decline of biodiversity caused by
human domination of ecosystems worldwide is supposed to alter important process rates …

Two decades of intensive research have provided compelling evidence for a link between
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF). Whereas early B-EF research concentrated …