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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 673-684Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.009
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- UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Wessex Biodiversity Ecosystem Services Sustainability (BESS) project within the NERC BESS program
- Fundacao pare a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [BPD/80726/2011]
- University of Zurich Research Priority Program on 'Global Change and Biodiversity'
- SNSF Project [31003A_137921]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh020002, NE/J014680/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_137921] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- NERC [ceh020002, NE/J014680/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and management is focused on the provision of ecosystem functions and services under current environmental conditions, yet this could lead to inappropriate management guidance and undervaluation of the importance of biodiversity. The maintenance of ecosystem functions and services under substantial predicted future environmental change (i.e., their 'resilience') is crucial. Here we identify a range of mechanisms underpinning the resilience of ecosystem functions across three ecological scales. Although potentially less important in the short term, biodiversity, encompassing variation from within species to across landscapes, may be crucial for the longer-term resilience of ecosystem functions and the services that they underpin.
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