High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services.

Journal article

Biodiversity is rapidly declining worldwide, and there is consensus that this can decrease ecosystem functioning and services. It remains unclear, though, whether few or many of the species in an ecosystem are needed to sustain the provisioning of ecosystem services. It has been hypothesized that most species would promote ecosystem services if many times, places, functions and environmental changes were considered; however, no previous study has considered all of these factors together. Here...

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Authors: Isbell, F; Calcagno, V; Hector, A; Connolly, J; Harpole, W

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Nature
• Volume: 477
• Issue: 7363
• Pages: 199-202
• Publication date: 2011-09-01
• DOI: 10.1038/nature10282
• EISSN: 1476-4687
• ISSN: 0028-0836
• Language: English
• Keywords: Plant Physiological Phenomena; Models, Biological; Extinction, Biological; Species Specificity; Ecology; Plants; Poaceae; Plant Development; Biodiversity; Ecosystem