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SUBMITTER: Alsterberg C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5298852 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Alsterberg Christian C Roger Fabian F Sundbäck Kristina K Juhanson Jaanis J Hulth Stefan S Hallin Sara S Gamfeldt Lars L
Science advances 20170208 2
Ecosystems worldwide are facing habitat homogenization due to human activities. Although it is commonly proposed that such habitat homogenization can have negative repercussions for ecosystem functioning, this question has yet to receive explicit scientific attention. We expand on the framework for evaluating the functional consequences of biodiversity loss by scaling up from the level of species to the level of the entire habitats. Just as species diversity generally fosters ecosystem functioni ...[more]