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Ecosystem functioning

Within- and Across-Species Responses of Plant Traits and Litter Decomposition to Elevation across Contrasting Vegetation Types in Subarctic Tundra

Maja K. Sundqvist, Reiner Giesler, David A. Wardle

Functional Redundancy Patterns Reveal Non-Random Assembly Rules in a Species-Rich Marine Assemblage

Nicolas Guillemot, Michel Kulbicki, Pascale Chabanet, Laurent Vigliola

The Importance of Dispersal for Bacterial Community Composition and Functioning

Eva S. Lindström, Örjan Östman

Plant Identity Influences Decomposition through More Than One Mechanism

Jennie R. McLaren, Roy Turkington

Watershed Urbanization Alters the Composition and Function of Stream Bacterial Communities

Si-Yi Wang, Elizabeth B. Sudduth, [ ... ], Emily S. Bernhardt

Multifunctionality and Diversity in Bacterial Biofilms

Hannes Peter, Irene Ylla, [ ... ], Lars J. Tranvik

Aggregating, Tagging and Integrating Biodiversity Research

David P. Mindell, Brian L. Fisher, [ ... ], Richard L. Pyle

Global Change Could Amplify Fire Effects on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Audrey Niboyet, Jamie R. Brown, [ ... ], Bruce A. Hungate

Species Richness and Trophic Diversity Increase Decomposition in a Co-Evolved Food Web

Benjamin Baiser, Roxanne S. Ardeshiri, Aaron M. Ellison

Hierarchical Plant Responses and Diversity Loss after Nitrogen Addition: Testing Three Functionally-Based Hypotheses in the Inner Mongolia Grassland

Qingmin Pan, Yongfei Bai, Jianguo Wu, Xingguo Han

Re-Structuring of Marine Communities Exposed to Environmental Change: A Global Study on the Interactive Effects of Species and Functional Richness

Martin Wahl, Heike Link, [ ... ], Mark Lenz

Effectiveness of Protected Areas in Maintaining Plant Production

Zhiyao Tang, Jingyun Fang, Jinyu Sun, Kevin J. Gaston

The Nature Index: A General Framework for Synthesizing Knowledge on the State of Biodiversity

Grégoire Certain, Olav Skarpaas, [ ... ], Signe Nybø

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