Sentence examples for drivers of ecosystem function from inspiring English sources

Biodiversity not only responds to environmental change, but has also been shown to be one of the key drivers of ecosystem function and service delivery.

Indeed, rapid evolution in invasive species, and native nonnative coevolution, may have stronger ecological impacts than other modeled drivers of ecosystem function (Yonekura et al. 2007; Palkovacs et al. 2009).

Plant yield is also determined by interactions with soil micro-organisms and while there is increasing recognition of the role of soil biota as drivers of ecosystem function and productivity, there is still relatively little knowledge of how agronomic management practices (e.g. crop rotation, tilling practices, fertiliser applications) might impact on soil communities.

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.

Indeed, functional identity, usually expressed as the biomass-weighted mean trait value for a community, has been demonstrated to be a key driver of ecosystem functioning from local [20] to regional [26] and global [27] scales.

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.

Several authors have stressed the importance of studying the combined effects of different environmental drivers on ecosystem functioning e.g. [ 16].

This is of particular importance because cumulative and/or interactive effects between drivers are very likely to be influential in determining levels of ecosystem functioning [ 10, 16- 22].

Pfisterer, A. B. & Schmid, B. Diversity-dependent production can decrease the stability of ecosystem functioning.

Water availability is a key regulator of ecosystem functioning, directly controlling plant and soil microbial activity.

Oliver, T. H. et al. Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystem functions.