Mechanisms Underlying the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Advances in Ecological Research Series

Coordinators: Bohan David, Dumbrell Alex

Language: English
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Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 61, the latest release in this ongoing series includes specific chapters on the Mechanistic links between biodiversity and ecosystem function, A multitrophic, eco-evolutionary perspective on biodiversity?ecosystem functioning research, Linking species coexistence to ecosystem functioning - a conceptual framework from ecological first principles, Species contributions to above and below ground biodiversity effects in the Trait-Based Experiment, Plant diversity effects on element cycling, Plant diversity effects on consumer community structure, stability, and ecosystem function, Plant community assembly and the consequences for ecosystem function, and more.

Preface - Mechanistic links between biodiversity and ecosystem function Nico Eisenhauer 1. A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research Nico Eisenhauer 2. Species contributions to above and belowground biodiversity effects in the Trait-Based Experiment Liesje Mommer 3. "Lost in trait space: species-poor communities are inflexible in properties that drive ecosystem functioning" Anja Vogel 4. Terrestrial laser scanning reveals temporal changes in biodiversity mechanisms driving grassland productivity Claudia Guimarães-Steinicke 5. Plant functional trait identity and diversity effects on soil meso- and macrofauna in experimental grassland Remy Beugnon and Nico Eisenhauer 6. How plant diversity impacts the coupled water, nutrient and carbon cycles Markus Lange 7. A new experimental approach to test why biodiversity effects Anja Vogel 8. Linking local species coexistence to ecosystem functioning - a conceptual framework from ecological first principles in grassland ecosystems Kathryn E. Barry 9. Mapping change in biodiversity and ecosystem function research: Food webs foster integration of experiments and science policy Jessica Hines 10. Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems Peter Manning

Environmentalists, ecologists at undergraduate through to research level, social scientists and economists.
Dave Bohan is an agricultural ecologist with an interest in predator-prey regulation interactions. Dave uses a model system of a carabid beetle predator and two agriculturally important prey; slugs and weed seeds. He has shown that carabids find and consume slug prey, within fields, and that this leads to regulation of slug populations and interesting spatial ‘waves’ in slug and carabid density. The carabids also intercept weed seeds shed by weed plants before they enter the soil, and thus carabids can regulate the long-term store of seeds in the seedbank on national scales. What is interesting about this system is that it contains two important regulation ecosystem services delivered by one group of service providers, the carabids. This system therefore integrates, in miniature, many of the problems of interaction between services.

Dave has most recently begun to work with networks. He developed, with colleagues, a learning methodology to build networks from sample date. This has produced the largest, replicated network in agriculture. One of his particular interests is how behaviours and dynamics at the species level, as studied using the carabid-slug-weed system, build across species and their interactions to the dynamics of networks at the ecosystem level.
Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.

  • Provides information that relates to a thorough understanding of the field of ecology
  • Deals with topical and important reviews on the physiologies, populations and communities of plants and animals