FORUM: Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach
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Hiroshi Tomimatsu*, Takehiro Sasaki, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jon R. Bridle, Colin Fontaine, Jun Kitano, Daniel B. Stouffer, Mark Vellend, T. Martijn Bezemer, Tadashi Fukami, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden, Masakado Kawata, Sonia K! efi, Nathan J.B. Kraft, Kevin S. McCann, Peter J. Mumby, Tohru Nakashizuka, Owen L. Petchey, Tamara N. Romanuk, Katharine N. Suding, Gaku Takimoto, Jotaro Urabe and Shigeo Yachi Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK; CERSP UMR 7204, Mus! eum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 75005, Paris, France; Ecological Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan; Integrative Ecology Group, Estaci! on Biol! ogical de Do~ nana (EBD-CSIC), c/Am! erico Vespucio s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain; School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand; D! epartement de biologie, Universit! e de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Qu! ebec J1K 2R1, Canada; Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, PO BOX 50, 6700AB, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Ecological Farming Systems, Research Station ART, Agroscope Reckenholz T€ anikon, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland; Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, CNRS UMR 5554, Universit! e de Montpellier II, Place Eug# ene Bataillon, CC 065 34095 Montpellier, France; Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd., Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia Qld 4072, Australia; Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1, Canada; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2525, USA; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan; and Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu 520-2113, Japan
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