The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of
life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit …

Microbial communities often exhibit incredible taxonomic diversity, raising questions regarding
the mechanisms enabling species coexistence and the role of this diversity in community …

… Dynamic equilib- 1996; Srivastava 1997), could have obscured the effects of productivity.
Artificial … Srivastava, DS 1997. Ecological and evolutionary limits of local species richness. Ph.…

A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily
focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale …

The structure of ecological networks reflects the evolutionary history of their biotic components,
and their dynamics are strongly driven by ecoevolutionary processes. Here, we present …

Phylogenetic diversity ( PD ) describes the total amount of phylogenetic distance among
species in a community. Although there has been substantial research on the factors that …

▪ Abstract It has often been argued that conserving biodiversity is necessary for maintaining
ecosystem functioning. We critically evaluate the current evidence for this argument. …

Over the past decade, accelerating rates of species extinction have prompted an increasing
number of studies to reduce species diversity experimentally and examine how this alters …

Despite concern about the effects of tropical forest disturbance and clearance on biodiversity
1 , 2 , data on impacts, particularly on invertebrates, remain scarce 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 . Here …

Accelerating rates of species extinction have prompted a growing number of researchers to
manipulate the richness of various groups of organisms and examine how this aspect of …