ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution2018
β-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning.
Review in Trends in ecology & evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers.
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133 citing papers in PubMed.
- Tipping Points in Bacterial Richness Amplify Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Northern Peatlands.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Land Use Mediates Long-Term Arthropod Functional Change.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- From environmental heterogeneity to stability: Beta-diversity stabilizes biomass across space.Ecology · 2026Article
- Reducing consumer pressure increases community dissimilarity leading to coral- or algal-dominance on a coral reef.Ecology · 2026Article
- A functional-trophic pathway links riparian land use intensification to riverine community stability.Science advances · 2026Article
- Dominant Grasses, Not Subordinate Forbs, Sustain Ecosystem Multifunctionality Across Spatial Scales.Global change biology · 2026Article
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- Microbial co-occurrence patterns and community assembly in seamount sediment cores: disentangling the effects of assembly processes on β-diversity.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Sustainable Mite Management in Apple Orchards Under Climatic Stress: Ecological Trade-Offs and System Challenges.Insects · 2026Review
- Regeneration from seeds with physical defects: Contrasts in survival strategies in recalcitrant and orthodox seeds.Plant diversity · 2026Review
- Linking Plant Metabolomics with Fungal Functional Dynamics Reveals a Noncanonical S-R-C Adaptive Trajectory.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Soil biota abundance supports ecosystem multifunctionality under carbon farming.National science review · 2026Article
- Beta-diversity of urban vegetation shapes microbial heterogeneity and maintains healthy environment.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Urban forest restoration enhances soil microbial functional potential and functional insurance via shifts in β-diversity.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Unravelling Marine Benthic Functioning Shifts Under Ocean Acidification.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- A multi-omics analysis of gut bacteriome, virome, and serum metabolome in bipolar depression.Npj mental health research · 2026Article
- Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Mammal Community Diversity and Activity Patterns: Evidence from the Jinfoshan and Jinyunshan National Nature Reserves, China.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Distance-decay reveals contrasting effects of land-use types on arthropod community homogenisation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Changes in Fish Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity and Their Driving Factors in a Reservoir in the Karst Basin of Southwest China.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Scale-dependent biodiversity-biomass relationships vary among subtropical forest community types.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
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Abstract
Evidence is increasing for positive effects of α-diversity on ecosystem functioning. We highlight here the crucial role of β-diversity - a hitherto underexplored facet of biodiversity - for a better process-level understanding of biodiversity change and its consequences for ecosystems. A focus on β-diversity has the potential to improve predictions of natural and anthropogenic influences on diversity and ecosystem functioning. However, linking the causes and consequences of biodiversity change is complex because species assemblages in nature are shaped by many factors simultaneously, including disturbance, environmental heterogeneity, deterministic niche factors, and stochasticity. Because variability and change are ubiquitous in ecosystems, acknowledging these inherent properties of nature is an essential step for further advancing scientific knowledge of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning in theory and practice.
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