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Research Highlight : Wu, D., Xu, C., Wang, S., Zhang, L., & Kortsch, S. (2022). Why are biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships so elusive? Trophic interactions may amplify ecosystem function variability. Journal of Animal Ecology , https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13808 . There is consensus that average trends of ecosystem functions increase with species diversity. However, large variations in ecosystem function (VEF) in systems with similar diversity levels are commonly observed, yet not understood. In this study, Wu et al. (2022) integrate empirical aquatic food webs with a multitrophic model to show that VEF generally shows a hump-shaped pattern along the species richness gradient. This pattern is related to changes in taxa composition across trophic levels—the proportion of consumer species relative to basal species—along the gradient of species richness. Thus, VEF dependence on species diversity is driven by both bottom-up and top-down control that regulate taxa composition and taxa dominance. These results are corroborated with an independent food web dataset from the Gulf of Riga. An important implication of this study is that biodiversity loss may not only reduce
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- Author
- Daniel Montoya
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)