Among communities, functional diversity increases ecosystem multifunctionality, but community-average trait values are emerging as important drivers of ecosystem services with greater potential to produce tradeoffs when compared to functional diversity.
We examined potential drivers of ecosystem vulnerability to climate stress by comparing baseline datasets that compared latitudinal patterns in genetic diversity, physiology and resilience, to the response of kelp forest ecosystems to a natural climatic event.
These demands have been considered important drivers of ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss.
Most frameworks (68%) include some determinants or drivers of ecosystem health (or ecosystems more generally), with 13 (15%) depicting them strongly.
In our study, the importance of intraspecific diversity over and above substrate C∶N ratio, which would normally be considered to be a central driver of ecosystem functioning, indicate that intraspecific diversity of fungi may contribute towards the wide range of variation seen in responses to species diversity.
Studies on multifunctionality sometimes consider heterotrophic diversity as one of the many components of multifunctionality10,18 rather than as a direct driver of ecosystem functioning.
In temperate coastal ecosystems, tide is the main driver of ecosystem dynamics.
van der Heijden, M. G. A., Bardgett, R. D. & van Straalen, N. M. The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems.
Van Der Heijden, M. G. A., Bardgett, R. D. & Van Straalen, N. M. The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems.
Van der Heijden, M. G., Bardgett, R. D. & van Straalen, N. M. The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems.
