Abstract The current decrease in biodiversity affects all ecosystems, and the impacts of diversity on ecosystem functioning need to be resolved. So far, marine studies about diversity?ecosystem productivity-relationships have concentrated on small-scale, controlled experiments, with often limited relevance to natural ecosystems. Here, we provide a real-world study on the effects of microorganismal diversity (measured as the diversity of benthic diatom communities) on ecosystem productivity (using chlorophyll a concentration as a surrogate) in a heterogeneous marine coastal archipelago. We collected 78 sediment cores at 17 sites in the northern Baltic Sea and found exceptionally high diatom diversity (328 observed species). We used structura...
Recent studies in terrestrial, plant-dominated systems have shown that reductions in diversity can a...
Biodiversity has traditionally been quantified using taxonomic information but the importance of als...
Islands provide ideal model systems to examine the factors influencing biodiversity, yet knowledge o...
Abstract The current decrease in biodiversity affects all ecosystems, and the impacts of diversity o...
Benthic diatoms are crucial for the functioning of ecosystems, but their diversity patterns along la...
Field studies at three intertidal mudflat stations within the Scheldt Estuary indicated an inverse r...
Ecological studies on islands have provided fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying biod...
Aim Global biodiversity loss has raised interest in understanding variation in diversity at differen...
Up to now, relatively few diversity-production experiments have been performed using microorganisms....
Studies investigating the role of species diversity in sustaining key ecosystem processes, such as p...
P>1. Positive effects of species diversity on ecosystem functioning have often been demonstrated in ...
The global biodiversity loss has raised interest in the different facets of diversity, and the impor...
The global biodiversity loss has increased the need to understand the effects of decreasing diversit...
Aim: Global biodiversity loss has raised interest in understanding variation in diversity at differe...
Benthic diatoms are dominant primary producers in intertidal mudflats and constitute a major source ...
Recent studies in terrestrial, plant-dominated systems have shown that reductions in diversity can a...
Biodiversity has traditionally been quantified using taxonomic information but the importance of als...
Islands provide ideal model systems to examine the factors influencing biodiversity, yet knowledge o...
Abstract The current decrease in biodiversity affects all ecosystems, and the impacts of diversity o...
Benthic diatoms are crucial for the functioning of ecosystems, but their diversity patterns along la...
Field studies at three intertidal mudflat stations within the Scheldt Estuary indicated an inverse r...
Ecological studies on islands have provided fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying biod...
Aim Global biodiversity loss has raised interest in understanding variation in diversity at differen...
Up to now, relatively few diversity-production experiments have been performed using microorganisms....
Studies investigating the role of species diversity in sustaining key ecosystem processes, such as p...
P>1. Positive effects of species diversity on ecosystem functioning have often been demonstrated in ...
The global biodiversity loss has raised interest in the different facets of diversity, and the impor...
The global biodiversity loss has increased the need to understand the effects of decreasing diversit...
Aim: Global biodiversity loss has raised interest in understanding variation in diversity at differe...
Benthic diatoms are dominant primary producers in intertidal mudflats and constitute a major source ...
Recent studies in terrestrial, plant-dominated systems have shown that reductions in diversity can a...
Biodiversity has traditionally been quantified using taxonomic information but the importance of als...
Islands provide ideal model systems to examine the factors influencing biodiversity, yet knowledge o...