Wardle, David
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Abstract
Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, especially at the large temporal and spatial scales that are most relevant for policy and conservation.
Published in
Nature
2017, volume: 546, number: 7656, pages: 65-72
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG14 Life below water
SDG15 Life on land
UKÄ Subject classification
Ecology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22899
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/89282