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Global Biodiversity Assessment
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This article is published in Journal of Animal Ecology.The article was published on 1996-11-01. It has received 421 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Aquatic biodiversity research & Measurement of biodiversity.read more
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
Bradley J. Cardinale,J. Emmett Duffy,Andrew Gonzalez,David U. Hooper,Charles Perrings,Patrick Venail,Anita Narwani,Georgina M. Mace,David Tilman,David A. Wardle,Ann P. Kinzig,Gretchen C. Daily,Michel Loreau,James B. Grace,Anne Larigauderie,Diane S. Srivastava,Shahid Naeem +16 more
TL;DR: It is argued that human actions are dismantling the Earth’s ecosystems, eliminating genes, species and biological traits at an alarming rate, and the question of how such loss of biological diversity will alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the goods and services needed to prosper is asked.
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Biotic Control over the Functioning of Ecosystems
F. Stuart Chapin,Brian Walker,Richard J. Hobbs,David U. Hooper,John H. Lawton,Osvaldo E. Sala,David Tilman +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that diversity is also functionally important, both because it increases the probability of including species that have strong ecosystem effects and because it can increase the efficiency of resource use.
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Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat
TL;DR: Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental and public health problems facing human society as mentioned in this paper, and each year about 10 million-ha of cropland is lost due to soil erosion, thus reducing the croplands available for food production.
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Darwin Core: an evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard.
John Wieczorek,David Bloom,Robert P. Guralnick,Stan Blum,Markus Döring,Renato De Giovanni,Tim Robertson,David Vieglais +7 more
TL;DR: This paper describes the evolution and development of Darwin Core, a data standard for publishing and integrating biodiversity information, focusing on the categories of terms that define the standard, differences between simple and relational DarwinCore, how the standard has been implemented and the community processes that are essential for maintenance and growth of the standard.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and human well-being: a framework for assessment
Rik Leemans,R. de Groot +1 more
TL;DR: The 245-page report lays out the approaches, assumptions, processes, and parameters scientists are using in the study and offers decision-makers a mechanism to identify options that can better achieve core human development and sustainability goals and better understand the trade-offs in decisions about development and the environment as mentioned in this paper.
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Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100.
Osvaldo E. Sala,F. S. Chapin,Juan J. Armesto,Eric L. Berlow,Janine Bloomfield,Rodolfo Dirzo,E Huber-Sanwald,Laura Foster Huenneke,Robert B. Jackson,Ann P. Kinzig,Rik Leemans,David M. Lodge,Harold A. Mooney,Martín Oesterheld,N L Poff,Martin T. Sykes,Brian Walker,Marilyn D. Walker,Diana H. Wall +18 more
TL;DR: This study identified a ranking of the importance of drivers of change, aranking of the biomes with respect to expected changes, and the major sources of uncertainties in projections of future biodiversity change.
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
Bradley J. Cardinale,J. Emmett Duffy,Andrew Gonzalez,David U. Hooper,Charles Perrings,Patrick Venail,Anita Narwani,Georgina M. Mace,David Tilman,David A. Wardle,Ann P. Kinzig,Gretchen C. Daily,Michel Loreau,James B. Grace,Anne Larigauderie,Diane S. Srivastava,Shahid Naeem +16 more
TL;DR: It is argued that human actions are dismantling the Earth’s ecosystems, eliminating genes, species and biological traits at an alarming rate, and the question of how such loss of biological diversity will alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the goods and services needed to prosper is asked.
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Hidden treatments in ecological experiments: re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity.
TL;DR: Case studies re-evaluating three different types of biodiversity experiments demonstrate that the increases found in such ecosystem properties as productivity, nutrient use efficiency, and stability were actually caused by “hidden treatments” that altered plant biomass and productivity.
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Biotic Control over the Functioning of Ecosystems
F. Stuart Chapin,Brian Walker,Richard J. Hobbs,David U. Hooper,John H. Lawton,Osvaldo E. Sala,David Tilman +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that diversity is also functionally important, both because it increases the probability of including species that have strong ecosystem effects and because it can increase the efficiency of resource use.
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Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat
TL;DR: Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental and public health problems facing human society as mentioned in this paper, and each year about 10 million-ha of cropland is lost due to soil erosion, thus reducing the croplands available for food production.