Recent interest in the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning has resulted in a multitude of large-scale manipulative
experiments examining the effect of aboveground diversity ...
Human activities are altering biodiversity and the N cycle globally,
affecting marine and terrestrial carbon cycling. Only a few
specialized bacteria carry out nitrification in terrestrial
ecosystems, ...
Changes in biodiversity due to human impact of domestic grazers are
occurring in many parts of the world, and the net effect of this
change could have detrimental effects on ecosystem functioning. ...
The importance of standing dead material, including coarse woody
debris in forests, has been shown to be important in the regeneration
of forests, and critical for maintaining a variety of ecosystem ...
