Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes.

Difficulties in scaling up theoretical and experimental results have raised controversy over the consequences of biodiversity loss for the functioning of natural ecosystems. Using a global survey of reef fish assemblages, we show that in contrast to previous theoretical and experimental studies, eco...

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Main Authors: Camilo Mora, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Arturo Ayala Bocos, Paula M Ayotte, Stuart Banks, Andrew G Bauman, Maria Beger, Sandra Bessudo, David J Booth, Eran Brokovich, Andrew Brooks, Pascale Chabanet, Joshua E Cinner, Jorge Cortés, Juan J Cruz-Motta, Amilcar Cupul Magaña, Edward E Demartini, Graham J Edgar, David A Feary, Sebastian C A Ferse, Alan M Friedlander, Kevin J Gaston, Charlotte Gough, Nicholas A J Graham, Alison Green, Hector Guzman, Marah Hardt, Michel Kulbicki, Yves Letourneur, Andres López Pérez, Michel Loreau, Yossi Loya, Camilo Martinez, Ismael Mascareñas-Osorio, Tau Morove, Marc-Olivier Nadon, Yohei Nakamura, Gustavo Paredes, Nicholas V C Polunin, Morgan S Pratchett, Héctor Reyes Bonilla, Fernando Rivera, Enric Sala, Stuart A Sandin, German Soler, Rick Stuart-Smith, Emmanuel Tessier, Derek P Tittensor, Mark Tupper, Paolo Usseglio, Laurent Vigliola, Laurent Wantiez, Ivor Williams, Shaun K Wilson, Fernando A Zapata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21483714/pdf/?tool=EBI