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Relating productivity patterns to functional diversity of North Sea macrofauna – knowledge increase by functional focus?

2018-03-13

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The benthic compartment is central to ecosystem services in shelf seas. Assemblages with a higher diversity have been suggested to operate more effectively. However, there is no general ecological relationship between diversity and ecosystem functioning due to species-specific effects and environmental influences. We are taking a trait-based and large-scale observational approach to link patterns in macrofaunal fu...

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Literature Corpus work: d4b7a538-90cc-550b-a8f2-6c998219318c
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26686v1

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