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Contrasting biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in phylogenetic and functional diversity.
The New phytologist - 1 Oct 2016
Steudel Bastian, Hallmann Christine, Lorenz Maike, Abrahamczyk Stefan, Prinz Kathleen, Herrfurth Cornelia, Feussner Ivo, Martini Johannes W R, Kessler Michael
Abstract excerpt
It is well known that ecosystem functioning is positively influenced by biodiversity. Most biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments have measured biodiversity based on species richness or phylogenetic relationships. However, theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that ecosystem functioning should be more closely related to functional diversity than to species richness. We applied different metrics of...
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