Biodiversity is multifaceted, involving aspects of species richness, functions, traits and phylogeny.
For the Churchill 2010 subcollection, we constructed sample-based rarefaction curves based on the observed-richness function Sobs (Mao Tau) [ 55], computed for one through 12 subcollection sites.
We then calculated five resilience indices for our urban park and for a preserved continuous forest (reference area): the average richness of functions, diversity of functions, evenness of functions, and redundancy of functions within- and cross-scale.
Most of these relationships have been studied before, but rarely simultaneously in a single experiment and never with a similar generality for different biogeographic regions (but see [50] for taxon richness – ecosystem function relationships of artificially assembled communities in three regions).
In comparison with the lepidopterans, although the coleopterans ORs have been focused on in recent years [ 20– 22, 43, 53], species richness and function analyses are still lacking.
Additional file 6: Table S5 Results of the AIC Model Selection approach with mosquito species richness in function of vegetation gradient and its heterogeneity, Parque Estadual da Ilha do Cardoso, 2009-2010.
However, De Deyn et al. [57] did not find that soil fertility influenced the plant species richness or functional group richness effects on multiple ecosystem functions including stocks of C and N in vegetation, soils and soil microbes, or loss of C and N from soil through leaching.
Starting from these, we established a conceptual approach using the notion of riverscape, with related function richness and bioassessment tools.
We recorded the community composition of each taxon at multiple sites and modelled species richness as a function of seven environmental predictors.
We investigated these controls and the capacity of topographic index (TI) and foliar N (FN), indicators of moisture and N richness, respectively, to function as integrated predictors of N2 and N2O fluxes at ecosystem, landscape and regional scales at three sites in New Hampshire, USA, including the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) long-term ecological research site.
