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| Title |
Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature Communications, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms7936 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Forest Isbell, Lars Gamfeldt, John N. Griffin, Nico Eisenhauer, Marc J. S. Hensel, Andy Hector, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy |
| Abstract |
The importance of biodiversity for the integrated functioning of ecosystems remains unclear because most evidence comes from analyses of biodiversity's effect on individual functions. Here we show that the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem function become more important as more functions are considered. We present the first systematic investigation of biodiversity's effect on ecosystem multifunctionality across multiple taxa, trophic levels and habitats using a comprehensive database of 94 manipulations of species richness. We show that species-rich communities maintained multiple functions at higher levels than depauperate ones. These effects were stronger for herbivore biodiversity than for plant biodiversity, and were remarkably consistent across aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Despite observed tradeoffs, the overall effect of biodiversity on multifunctionality grew stronger as more functions were considered. These results indicate that prior research has underestimated the importance of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning by focusing on individual functions and taxonomic groups. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 116 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 16 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 14 | 12% |
| Spain | 6 | 5% |
| Germany | 5 | 4% |
| Sweden | 5 | 4% |
| Australia | 4 | 3% |
| Mexico | 3 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 3% |
| Colombia | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 18 | 16% |
| Unknown | 39 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 67 | 58% |
| Scientists | 44 | 38% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,199 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 6 | <1% |
| Brazil | 6 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | <1% |
| United States | 5 | <1% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Colombia | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Japan | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 10 | <1% |
| Unknown | 1155 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 275 | 23% |
| Researcher | 208 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 175 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 100 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 59 | 5% |
| Other | 157 | 13% |
| Unknown | 225 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 511 | 43% |
| Environmental Science | 295 | 25% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 35 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 23 | 2% |
| Engineering | 9 | <1% |
| Other | 37 | 3% |
| Unknown | 289 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 103. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2020.
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