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If you choose to follow any links to the abstracts and/or complete text of articles, books, and documents listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Feature Items: Jennifer B. Hughes and Owen L. Petchey Merging Perspectives on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. (... a short report on The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives conference held in Paris, France from 6-9 December 2000. Participants at the conference discussed and debated about when and how biodiversity matters to ecosystem functioning. That is, the relationship between biodiversity and the magnitude and stability of ecosystem processes, such as primary productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. Ecologists have argued about whether a relationship between diversity and ecosystem functioning exists. Evidence was presented both about situations where increased diversity of plants or animals improved the functioning of the surrounding ecosystem, and situations where diversity matters little or not at all to ecosystem functioning. Many conference participants suggested that to predict changes in ecosystem functioning due to disturbance [whether caused by humans or not], studies need to consider the effects of changes in the composition [as well as the richness] of diversity and the direct effects of disturbance. Conference attendees did agree that regardless of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, there are plenty of ethical and aesthetic motives for slowing the rate of human-driven biodiversity loss. Other keywords and phrases -- biomass, nonlinear, plant, productivity, reduction, richness, species -- from the text of the article) Trends in Ecology & Evolution Volume 16, Number 5 (May 2001): 222-223. How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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