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Experimental demonstration of the importance of keystone communities for maintaining metacommunity biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
As local communities within a metacommunity may differ considerably in their contributions to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, it has been...
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Plant Functional Traits: A Key Framework for Understanding and Managing Ecosystem Responses to Global Environmental Challenges
The greatest threat to present and future biodiversity is climate change. It is estimated that climatic and related environmental changes will...
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Implications of Agrochemical Application on Soil Fauna and Ecosystem and Their Sustainable Alternatives
Soil fauna biodiversity refers to organisms that vary in size, have diverse feeding habits, functionality, and niches within edaphic systems, and are...
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City biodiversity index and the cities-biodiversity relationship: a case study for Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
In order to adopt a strategic model which aims to mitigate the environmental pressures exerted by the process of unbridled urbanization, the...
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Soil Formation, Soil Health and Soil Biodiversity
Increase in human population has led to industrialization and deterioration of the environment, including the soil. Also, there is also a constant...
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The Value of Biodiversity to Sustainable Development in Africa
Biodiversity provides ecosystem services, which are the basis for healthy ecosystems that support life. These services could either be supporting,...
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Scientific literature on freshwater ecosystem services: trends, biases, and future directions
The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the scientific literature on aquatic ecosystem services. We used the Web of Science...
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Ocean Biodiversity Crisis
The enormous human pressure on the ocean, through the combined action of excessive inputs of nutrients, organic matter and pollutants, the occupation...
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Landscape Structure, Functions and Biodiversity
The concept of landscapes, such as agricultural landscapes, landscape approaches, landscape scale, cultural landscapes, and multifunctional...
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Introduced species in a tidal ecosystem of mud and sand: curse or blessing?
For about a century, biodiversity in the tidal Wadden Sea (North Sea, European Atlantic) has increased by more than one hundred introduced species...
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An Outlook on Marine Sponges and Associated Biodiversity Addressing Conservation Strategies
Sponges are the pore-bearing animals belonging to the phylum Porifera. They are the oldest living multicellular invertebrates on this planet. Sponges...
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Impact of Environmental Gases on Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Its Influence on Ecosystem Functioning Under the Current Climate Change Scenario
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are of paramount importance that develop a good mutual relationship with higher plants. The impact of different...
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Species identity drives ecosystem function in a subsidy-dependent coastal ecosystem
Declines in species diversity carry profound implications for ecosystem functioning. Communities of primary producers and consumers interact on...
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Dynamics of Forest Ecosystem vs Ecosystem Services
In forest production, supporting services represent the structure and functioning of the ecosystem, linking biological diversity and production of...
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Multi-trait functional diversity predicts ecosystem multifunctionality under nitrogen addition in a desert steppe
Background and aimsIncreased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition under global climate change is known to reduce plant species richness in terrestrial...
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Common soil history is more important than plant history for arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly in an experimental grassland diversity gradient
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning strengthens with ecosystem age. However, the interplay between the plant diversity -...
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The ecosystem services supplied by urban green infrastructure depend on their naturalness, functionality and imperviousness
Urban green infrastructure (UGI) can provide key ecosystem services (ES) for human well-being. For this purpose, it is critical to ascertain which...
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Network complexity and community composition of key bacterial functional groups promote ecosystem multifunctionality in three temperate steppes of Inner Mongolia
AimsSoil microorganisms play crucial roles in sustaining ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF). Existing studies have typically considered the role of...
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Termite species and functional diversity as determined by vegetation and edaphic characteristics in a savanna ecosystem
BackgroundSavanna ecosystems support a diversity of biota and are influenced by vegetation and edaphic characteristics, sha** resident communities....
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Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation: a biological mindset
In the light of unprecedented planetary changes in biodiversity, real-time and accurate ecosystem and biodiversity assessments are becoming...
