Longji Terrace, one of the three ancient terraces in China, is a comprehensive tourist scenic spot with agricultural as main body and integrating natural landscape, cultural landscape ethnic customs. In this paper, taking Terrace Guilin research object, using geographic information technology to study its ecosystem structure from aspects space, components, etc., explore material energy flow pat...

Facilitation, an ecological interaction assembling plant communities worldwide, has been shown to modulate both species richness and ecosystem functions. Such a biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationship can be decomposed into different components not only related losses gains but also the identity of context in which they live. Using extension classical BEF approach named CAFE (comm...

Although studies on biodiversity and ecosystem function are often framed within the context of anthropogenic change, a central question that remains is how important are direct vs. indirect (via changes in biodiversity) effects of anthropogenic stressors on ecosystem functions in multitrophic-level communities. Here, we quantify the effects of the fungicide chlorothalonil on 34 species-, 2 comm...

Can differences in community assembly alter the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function? Pholchan et al. (2013) used a variety of manipulations to change microbial community assembly in sludge reactors and examined the subsequent links between diversity and a rare function, the removal of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Interestingly, the authors saw no consistent differ...