ReviewEcology and evolution2017
Trait-based approaches to analyze links between the drivers of change and ecosystem services: Synthesizing existing evidence and future challenges.
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- Response of Arctic benthic foraminiferal traits to past environmental changes.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Functional group analyses of herpetofauna in South Korea using a large dataset.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Pollen-based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Searching for indicator macroinvertebrate traits in an Afrotropical riverine system: implication for ecosystem biomonitoring and sustainability.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
- Digging into the roots: understanding direct and indirect drivers of ecosystem service trade-offs in coastal grasslands via plant functional traits.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
- Species interactions and environmental context affect intraspecific behavioural trait variation and ecosystem function.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Exposure to low concentrations of pesticide stimulates ecological functioning in the dung beetlePeerJ · 2020Article
- Predicting resilience of ecosystem functioning from co-varying species' responses to environmental change.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Continental scale structuring of forest and soil diversity via functional traits.Nature ecology & evolution · 2019Article
- Structural and functional responses of invertebrate communities to climate change and flow regulation in alpine catchments.Global change biology · 2019Article
- Agricultural impacts on streams near Nitrate Vulnerable Zones: A case study in the Ebro basin, Northern Spain.PloS one · 2019Article
- Nature's contributions to people in mountains: A review.PloS one · 2019Review
- Taxonomic resolution and functional traits in the analysis of tropical oribatid mite assemblages.Experimental & applied acarology · 2017Article
- Trait-based approaches to analyze links between the drivers of change and ecosystem services: Synthesizing existing evidence and future challenges.Ecology and evolution · 2017Review
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Abstract
Understanding the responses of biodiversity to drivers of change and the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem properties and ecosystem services is a key challenge in the context of global environmental change. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the scientific literature linking direct drivers of change and ecosystem services via functional traits of three taxonomic groups (vegetation, invertebrates, and vertebrates) to: (1) uncover trends and research biases in this field; and (2) synthesize existing empirical evidence. Our results show the existence of important biases in published studies related to ecosystem types, taxonomic groups, direct drivers of change, ecosystem services, geographical range, and the spatial scale of analysis. We found multiple evidence of links between drivers and services mediated by functional traits, particularly between land-use changes and regulating services in vegetation and invertebrates. Seventy-five functional traits were recorded in our sample. However, few of these functional traits were repeatedly found to be associated with both the species responses to direct drivers of change (response traits) and the species effects on the provision of ecosystem services (effect traits). Our results highlight the existence of potential "key functional traits," understood as those that have the capacity to influence the provision of multiple ecosystem services, while responding to specific drivers of change, across a variety of systems and organisms. Identifying "key functional traits" would help to develop robust indicator systems to monitor changes in biodiversity and their effects on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services supply.
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