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Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, April 2015
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Title
Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats
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Nature Communications, April 2015
DOI 10.1038/ncomms7936
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Authors

Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Forest Isbell, Lars Gamfeldt, John N. Griffin, Nico Eisenhauer, Marc J. S. Hensel, Andy Hector, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy

Abstract

The importance of biodiversity for the integrated functioning of ecosystems remains unclear because most evidence comes from analyses of biodiversity's effect on individual functions. Here we show that the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem function become more important as more functions are considered. We present the first systematic investigation of biodiversity's effect on ecosystem multifunctionality across multiple taxa, trophic levels and habitats using a comprehensive database of 94 manipulations of species richness. We show that species-rich communities maintained multiple functions at higher levels than depauperate ones. These effects were stronger for herbivore biodiversity than for plant biodiversity, and were remarkably consistent across aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Despite observed tradeoffs, the overall effect of biodiversity on multifunctionality grew stronger as more functions were considered. These results indicate that prior research has underestimated the importance of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning by focusing on individual functions and taxonomic groups.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Switzerland 6 <1%
Brazil 6 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
United States 5 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
France 3 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Other 10 <1%
Unknown 1150 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 273 23%
Researcher 207 17%
Student > Master 174 15%
Student > Bachelor 100 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 59 5%
Other 158 13%
Unknown 223 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 509 43%
Environmental Science 295 25%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 35 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 2%
Engineering 9 <1%
Other 36 3%
Unknown 287 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 104. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2020.
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#404,551
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Outputs from Nature Communications
#6,603
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Outputs of similar age
#4,422
of 271,931 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#57
of 734 outputs
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