Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory
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Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory.
Although the impacts of the loss of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning are well established, the importance of the loss of biodiversity relative to other human-caused drivers of environmental change remains uncertain. Results of 11 experiments show that ecologically relevant decreases in grassland plant diversity influenced productivity at least as much as ecologically relevant changes in ni...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208240109