Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality
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Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality.
Society values landscapes that reliably provide many ecosystem functions. As the study of ecosystem functioning expands to include more locations, time spans, and functions, the functional importance of individual species is becoming more apparent. However, the functional importance of individual species does not necessarily translate to the functional importance of biodiversity measured in who...
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Mokany et al. (1) reiterate an important consideration about the interpretation of results in our PNAS report (2). The authors suggest that the use of a different metric of β diversity might reveal a larger effect of β diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality. We agree, and reiterate that our reported effects of β diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality are likely conservative for a number o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220333110