Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystem functions

Oliver, Tom H.; Heard, Matthew S.; Isaac, Nick J.B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4869-8052; Roy, David B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331; Procter, Deborah; Eigenbrod, Felix; Freckleton, Rob; Hector, Andy; Orme, C. David L.; Petchey, Owen L.; Proença, Vânia; Raffaelli, David; Suttle, K. Blake; Mace, Georgina M.; Martín-López, Berta; Woodcock, Ben A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0300-9951; Bullock, James M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0529-4020. 2015 Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystem functions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30 (11). 673-684. 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009

Abstract/Summary

Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and management is focused on the provision of ecosystem functions and services under current environmental conditions, yet this could lead to inappropriate management guidance and undervaluation of the importance of biodiversity. The maintenance of ecosystem functions and services under substantial predicted future environmental change (i.e., their ‘resilience’) is crucial. Here we identify a range of mechanisms underpinning the resilience of ecosystem functions across three ecological scales. Although potentially less important in the short term, biodiversity, encompassing variation from within species to across landscapes, may be crucial for the longer-term resilience of ecosystem functions and the services that they underpin.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Pywell
ISSN:	0169-5347
Additional Keywords:	ecosystem services, functional diversity, recovery, redundancy, resistance, risk
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	22 Oct 2015 10:34 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512028

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Pywell

ISSN:

0169-5347

Additional Keywords:

ecosystem services, functional diversity, recovery, redundancy, resistance, risk

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment