Matty P. Berg

TL;DR: It is proposed that the assessment of trait–service clusters will represent a crucial step in ecosystem service monitoring and in balancing the delivery of multiple, and sometimes conflicting, services in ecosystem management.

TL;DR: Reducing the functional diversity of decomposer organisms and plant litter types slowed the cycling of litter carbon and nitrogen, and the emergence of this general mechanism and the coherence of patterns across contrasting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems suggest that biodiversity loss has consistent consequences for litter decomposition and the Cycling of major elements on broad spatial scales.

TL;DR: Soil fauna from a series of secondary grassland succession stages selectively suppress early successional dominant plant species, thereby enhancing the relative abundance of subordinate species and also that of species from later succession stages.

TL;DR: The importance of multispecies interactions is reviewed looking at two trait categories: thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate and associated lifehistory traits and dispersal traits of species and a survey of published literature shows pronounced and consistent differences among trophic groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared regional variation in litter mass-loss rates (first year) in pine forests to climate across a large, continental-scale area using 39 experimental sites spanning climatic regions from the subarctic to subtropical and Mediterranean: the latitudinal gradient ranged from 31 °N to 70 °N and may represent the largest geographical area that has been sampled and observed for the purpose of studying biogeochemical processes.