Sentence examples for effects on ecosystem function from inspiring English sources

High species and functional group richness often has positive effects on ecosystem function including increasing productivity.

Hence our understanding of their effects on ecosystem function, behaviour and metabolism of organisms remains elusive.

These anthropogenic pressures tend to eliminate large carnivores first, which can have cascading effects on ecosystem function (e.g. mesopredator release).

In the western United States, overgrazing, weed invasion and wildfire have resulted in the conversion of shrub-steppe to annual grasslands, with substantial effects on ecosystem function.

Several decades of invasion research allow us to identify the settings most likely to experience highly modified functions when invaded, and to synthesize the nature and magnitude of invasion effects on ecosystem function.

Jack Gilbert (Surgery/Committee on Evolutionary Biology/Argonne National Laboratory/Ecology & Evolution): Temporal and biogeographic structure of marine microbial communities, microbial metagenomics, microbial effects on ecosystem function.

Species at higher trophic levels had more significant and variable or less predictable effects on ecosystem functioning, and the species within functional groups have very different effects on ecosystem functioning, indicating a lack of redundancy within functional groups.

Duffy, J. E., Richardson, J. P. & Canuel, E. A. Grazer diversity effects on ecosystem functioning in seagrass beds.

Balvanera, P. et al. Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services.

Duffy, J., Richardson, J. & Canuel, E. A. Grazer diversity effects on ecosystem functioning in seagrass beds.

Naeem, S. & Wright, J. P. Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem.