A conceptual framework and experimental design for analysing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) in agroforestry systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Schwarz ◽  
Florian Schnabel ◽  
Jürgen Bauhus
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Agroforestry Systems ◽  
Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship between Macrofaunal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in the Deep Sea

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Baldrighi ◽  
Donato Giovannelli ◽  
Giuseppe D'Errico ◽  
Marc Lavaleye ◽  
Elena Manini
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Changes in temperature alter the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (43) ◽  
pp. 10989-10994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca C. García ◽  
Elvire Bestion ◽  
Ruth Warfield ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Species Interactions ◽  
Thermal Tolerance ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Pronounced Increase ◽  
Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Environmental Warming

Global warming and the loss of biodiversity through human activities (e.g., land-use change, pollution, invasive species) are two of the most profound threats to the functional integrity of the Earth’s ecosystems. These factors are, however, most frequently investigated separately, ignoring the potential for synergistic effects of biodiversity loss and environmental warming on ecosystem functioning. Here we use high-throughput experiments with microbial communities to investigate how changes in temperature affect the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We found that changes in temperature systematically altered the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. As temperatures departed from ambient conditions the exponent of the diversity-functioning relationship increased, meaning that more species were required to maintain ecosystem functioning under thermal stress. This key result was driven by two processes linked to variability in the thermal tolerance curves of taxa. First, more diverse communities had a greater chance of including species with thermal traits that enabled them to maintain productivity as temperatures shifted from ambient conditions. Second, we found a pronounced increase in the contribution of complementarity to the net biodiversity effect at high and low temperatures, indicating that changes in species interactions played a critical role in mediating the impacts of temperature change on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Our results highlight that if biodiversity loss occurs independently of species’ thermal tolerance traits, then the additional impacts of environmental warming will result in sharp declines in ecosystem function.

Does Drought Influence the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Boreal Forests?

Ecosystems ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Grossiord ◽  
André Granier ◽  
Arthur Gessler ◽  
Tommaso Jucker ◽  
Damien Bonal
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Boreal Forests ◽  
Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives on the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

BioScience ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMY J. SYMSTAD ◽  
F. STUART CHAPIN ◽  
DIANA H. WALL ◽  
KATHERINE L. GROSS ◽  
LAURA F. HUENNEKE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
The Relationship

Cultural Labour

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brahma Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to see? Can such performances challenge social hierarchies and ensure justice in a caste-ridden society? In Cultural Labour, the author studies bhuiyan puja (land worship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana: he examines various ways in which meanings and behaviour are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, the author looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts. Based on an extensive ethnography and the author’s own life experience as a member of such a community, the book offers a new conceptual framework to understand the politics and aesthetics of folk performance in the light of contemporary theories of theatre and performance studies.

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