2017
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12828
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Abstract: There has been considerable focus on the impacts of environmental change on ecosystem function arising from changes in species richness. However, environmental change may affect ecosystem function without affecting richness, most notably by affecting population densities and community composition. Using a theoretical model, we find that, despite invariant richness, (1) small environmental effects may already lead to a collapse of function; (2) competitive strength may be a less important determinant of ecosyst… Show more

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“…While research has increasingly highlighted the fact that species richness may hold steady even while high species turnover erodes the ecological function of the system (Spaak et al. ), PD is often considered as a more valuable metric for management because of its frequent correlations to ecosystem function and direct measurement of evolutionary history (Grab et al. ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…While research has increasingly highlighted the fact that species richness may hold steady even while high species turnover erodes the ecological function of the system (Spaak et al. ), PD is often considered as a more valuable metric for management because of its frequent correlations to ecosystem function and direct measurement of evolutionary history (Grab et al. ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is a critical, but still understudied distinction, given that substantial functional changes can occur despite invariant species richness (Spaak et al. ) and we expect such false compensation may be commonly overlooked in analyses of PD responses. Given these recognized limitations of PD, we thus also examine the extent of compositional change undetected by PD, and the degree of phylogenetic signal in species’ responses to land‐use change.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
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