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Functional capacity in old age is like an ecosystem that may collapse when disrupted

In old age, a tighter interlinkage between different domains of functional capacity may indicate a loss of system resilience. When functional capacity domains are tightly interconnected, a disruption ...
Frontiers

Wetland Ecosystem Functions Under Changing Environments

Wetlands, as critical "ecological kidneys" of the earth, perform irreplaceable functions such as water purification, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity ...
JSTOR Daily

When does diversity matter? Species functional diversity and ecosystem functioning across habitats and seasons in a field experiment

1. Despite ample experimental evidence indicating that biodiversity might be an important driver of ecosystem processes, its role in the functioning of real ecosystems remains unclear. In particular, ...
JSTOR Daily

Responses of CO₂ Exchange and Primary Production of the Ecosystem Components to Environmental Changes in a Mountain Peatland

The complexity of natural ecological systems presents challenges for predicting the impact of global environmental changes on ecosystem structure and function. Grouping of plants into functional types ...
Science Daily

In drought and heavy rains, ecosystems function like information communication networks

Tree canopies and the running streams below, or coral reefs and the ocean waters that flow around them, are interconnected components of a larger whole: an ecosystem. These ecosystem parts are in ...
esa.org

Humans are components of ecosystems: a response to “100 articles every ecologist should read”

In November 2017, the publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution of “100 articles every ecologist should read,” by Franck Courchamp and Corey JA Bradshaw, stirred the ecological community. The paper ...