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Scaling up: the role of species and habitat patches in functioning of coastal ecosystems

Scaling up: the role of species and habitat patches in functioning of coastal ecosystems Scaling up: the role of species and habitat patches in functioning of coastal ecosystems S. J. HAWKINSa,b,* Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, UK School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK ‘‘ ‘Biological diversity’ means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.’’ UN Convention on Biodiversity, Article 2 (UNEP, 1992) Given high rates of extinction and potential loss of ecosystem ‘goods and services’, there is a clear need to understand the consequences of loss of biodiversity for the functioning of ecosystems. Complex scientific problems are often addressed through simplifications; this has certainly been the case in the debate about biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. (Often, some attribute of ecosystem functioning is plotted against biodiversity (usually number of species; e.g. Emmerson et al., 2001; Tilman et al., 2001; Wardle, 2001). As theory has moved into empirical studies, a simplified bivariate approach has often been followed.) Unfortunately, in many instances a surrogate of an ecosystem process has been used; most often this has been biomass as an index of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN
1052-7613
eISSN
1099-0755
DOI
10.1002/aqc.637
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Abstract

Scaling up: the role of species and habitat patches in functioning of coastal ecosystems S. J. HAWKINSa,b,* Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, UK School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK ‘‘ ‘Biological diversity’ means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.’’ UN Convention on Biodiversity, Article 2 (UNEP, 1992) Given high rates of extinction and potential loss of ecosystem ‘goods and services’, there is a clear need to understand the consequences of loss of biodiversity for the functioning of ecosystems. Complex scientific problems are often addressed through simplifications; this has certainly been the case in the debate about biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. (Often, some attribute of ecosystem functioning is plotted against biodiversity (usually number of species; e.g. Emmerson et al., 2001; Tilman et al., 2001; Wardle, 2001). As theory has moved into empirical studies, a simplified bivariate approach has often been followed.) Unfortunately, in many instances a surrogate of an ecosystem process has been used; most often this has been biomass as an index of

Journal

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley

Published: May 1, 2004

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