Biodiversity and aquatic ecosystem functioning: A mini-review

Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 367-374

  Humbert, J F ^a   Dorigo, U ^a  

^a UMR CARRTEL   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecosystem; Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844435298     PISSN: 14634988     EISSN: 15394077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14634980500457773     Document Type: Short Survey

References (60)

1. Bellwood, D. R., Hoey, A. S., Choat, J. H., 2003. Limited functional redundancy in high diversity systems: resilience and ecosystem function on coral reefs. Ecol. Lett. 6, 281-285.
2. Bengtsson, J., Engelhardt, K., Giller, P., Hobbie, S., Lawrence, D., Levine, J., Vilà, M., Wolters, V., 2002. Slippin' and slidin' between the scales: the scaling components of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relations. In: M. Loreau, S. Naeem, P. Inchausti (Eds.), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - Synthesis and Perspectives, pp. 209-220. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
3. Bengtsson, J., Angelstam, P., Elmqvist, T., Emanuelsson, U., Folke, C., Ihse, M., Moberg, F., Nyström, M., 2003. Reserves, resilience and dynamic landscapes. Ambio 32, 389-396.
4. Cardinale, B. J., Palmer, M. A., Collins, S. L., 2002. Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation. Nature 415, 426-429.
5. Carr, M. H., Anderson, T. W., Hixon, M. A., 2002. Biodiversity, population regulation, and the stability of coral-reef fish communities. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 11241-11245.
6. Case, T. J., 1990. Invasion resistance arises in strongly interacting species-rich model competition communities. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 87, 9610-9614.
7. Chapin III, F. S., Zavaleta, E. S., Eviner, V. T., Naylor, R. L., Vitousek, P. M., Reynolds, H. L., Hooper, D. U., Lavorel, S., Sala, O. E., Hobbie, S. E., Mack, M. C., Diaz, S., 2001. Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 405, 234-242.
8. Chase, J. M., Leibold, M. A., 2003. Spatial scale dictates the productivity-biodiversity relationship. Nature 416, 427-430.
9. Dodson, S. I., Arnott, S. E., Cottingham, K. L., 2000. The relationship in lake communities between primary productivity and species richness. Ecology 81, 2662-2679.
10. Dorigo, U., Jacquet, S., Humbert, J.-F., 2004. Cyanophage diversity inferred from g20 gene analysis in the largest natural French lakes, Lake Bourget (France). Appl. Environ. Microb. 70, 1017-1022.
11. Elliott, J. A., Irish, A. E., Reynolds, C. S., 2001. The effects of vertical mixing on a phytoplankton community: a modelling approach to the intermediate disturbance hypothesis. Fresh. Biol. 46, 1291-1297.
12. Emmerson, M. C., Solan, M., Emes, C., Paterson, D. M., Raffaelli, D., 2001. Consistent patterns and the idiosyncratic effects of biodiversity in marine ecosystems. Nature 411, 73-77.
13. Fukami, T., Morin, P.J.,2003. Productivity-biodiversity relationships depend on the history of community assembly. Nature 424, 423-426.
14. Gessner, M. O., Inchausti, P., Persson, L., Raffaelli, D. G., Giller, P. S., 2004. Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: insights from aquatic systems. Oïkos 104, 419-422.
15. Giller, P. S., Hillebrand, H., Berninger, U. G., Gessner, M. O., Hawkins, S., Inchausti, P., Inglis, C., Leslie, H., Malmqvist, B., Monaghan, M. T., Morin, P. J., O'Mullan, G., 2004. Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments. Oïkos 104, 423-426.
16. Hector, A., Schmid, B., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M. C., Diemer, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Finn, J. A., Freitas, H., Giller, P. S., Good, J., Harris, R., Högberg, P., Huss-Danell, K., Joshi, J., Jumpponen, A., Körner, C., Leadley, P. W., Loreau, M., Minns, A., Mulder, C. P. H., O'Donovan, G., Otway, S. J., Pereira, J. S., Prinz, A., Read, D. J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schulze, E.-D., Siamantziouras, A.-S. D., Spehn, E. M., Terry, A. C., Troumbis, A. Y., Woodward, F. Y., Yachi, S., Lawton, J. H., 1999. Plant diversity and productivity experiments in European grasslands. Science 286, 1123-1127.
17. Hooper, D. U., Solan, M., Symstad, A., Diaz, S., Gessner, M. O., Buchmann, N., Degrange, V., Grime, P., Hulot, F., Mermillod-Blondin, F., Roy, J., Spehn, E., van Peer, L., 2002. Species diversity, functional diversity, and ecosystem functioning. In: M. Loreau, S. Naeem, P. Inchausti (Eds.), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - Synthesis and Perspectives, pp. 195-208. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
18. Horner-Devine, M. C., Leibold, M. A., Smith, V. H., Bohannan, J. M., 2003. Bacterial diversity patterns along a gradient of primary productivity. Ecol. Lett. 6, 613-622.
19. Hulot, F. D., Lacroix, G., Lescher-Moutoué, F., Loreau, M., 2000. Functional diversity governs ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment. Nature 405, 340-344.
20. Huston, M. A., 1997. Hidden treatments in ecological experiments: re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity. Oecologia 110, 449-460.
21. Huston, M. A., McBride, A. C., 2002. Evaluating the relative strengths of biotic versus abiotic controls on ecosystem processes. In: M. Loreau, S. Naeem, P. Inchausti (Eds.), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - Synthesis and Perspectives, pp. 47-60. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
22. Hutchinson, G. E., 1961. The paradox of the plankton. Am. Nat. 95, 137-145.
23. Huysman, J., Jonker, R. R., Zonneveld, C., Weissing, F. J., 1999. Competition for light between phytoplankton species: experimental tests of mechanistic theory. Ecology 80, 211-222.
24. Huysman, J., Johansson, A. M., Folmer, E. O., Weissing, F. J., 2001. Towards a solution of the plankton paradox: the importance of physiology and life history. Ecol. Lett. 4, 408-411.
25. Interlandi, S. J., Kilham, S. S., 2001. Limiting resources and the regulation of diversity in phytoplankton communities. Ecology 82, 1270-1282.
26. Kennedy, T. A., Naeem, S., Howe, K. M., Knops, J. M. H., Tilman, D., Reich, P., 2002. Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion. Nature 417, 636-638.
27. Levine, J. M., Kennedy, T., Naeem, S., 2002. Neighbourhood scale effects of species diversity on biological invasions and their relationship to community patterns. In: M. Loreau, S. Naeem, P. Inchausti (Eds.), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - Synthesis and Perspectives, pp. 114-124. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
28. Loreau, M., 1998. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: a mechanistic model. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 5632-5636.
29. Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Inchausti, P., Bengtsson, J., Grime, J. P., Hector, A., Hooper, D. U., Huston, M. A., Raffaelli, D., Schmid, B., Tilman, D., Wardle, D. A., 2001. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Current knowledge and future challenges. Science 294, 804-808.
30. Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Inchausti, P. (Eds.), 2002a. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning-Synthesis and Perspectives. Oxford University Press, New York, NY
31. Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Inchausti, P., 2002b. Perspectives and challenges. In: M. Loreau, S. Naeem, P. Inchausti (Eds.), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - Synthesis and Perspectives, pp. 237-242. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
32. Loreau, M., Mouquet, N., Gonzalez, A., 2003. Biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 13765-12770.
33. Martinez, N. D., 1996. Defining and measuring functional aspects of biodiversity. In: K. J. Gaston (Ed.), Biodiversity - A Biology of Numbers and Differences, pp. 114-118. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
34. MacArthur, R., 1955. Fluctuations of animal populations and a measure of community stability. Ecology 36, 533-536.
35. McCann, K. S., 2000. The diversity - stability debate. Nature 405, 228-233.
36. McCann, K. S., Hastings, A., Huxel, G. R., 1998. Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature. Nature 395, 794-798.
37. McGrady-Steed, J., Harris, P. M., Morin, P. J., 1997. Biodiversity regulates ecosystem predictability. Nature 390, 162-165.
38. Mittelbach, G. G., Steiner, C. F., Scheiner, S. M., Gross, K. L., Reynolds, H. L., Waide, R. B., Willig, M. R., Dodson, S. I., Gough, L., 2001. What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Ecology 82, 2381-2396.
39. Mittelbach, G. G., Scheiner, S. M., Steiner, C. F., 2003. What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Reply. Ecology 84, 3390-3395.
40. Morin, P. J., McGrady-Steed, J., 2004. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic microbial systems: a new analysis of temporal variation and species richness-predictability relations. Oïkos 104, 458-466.
41. Naeem, J., Wright, J. P., 2003. Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Ecol. Lett. 6, 567-579.
42. Naeem, S., 2002. Ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss: the evolution of a paradigm. Ecology 83, 1537-1552.
43. Naeem, S., Halm, D. R., Schuurman, G., 2000. Producer-decomposer co-dependency influences biodiversity effects. Nature 403, 762-764.
44. Naeem, S., Loreau, M., Inchausti, P., 2002. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the emergence of a synthetic ecological framework. In: M. Loreau, S. Naeem, P. Inchausti (Eds.), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - Synthesis and Perspectives, pp. 3-11. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
45. Naeem, S., Thompson, L. J., Lawler, S. P., Lawton, J. H., Woodfin, R. M., 1994. Declining biodiversity can alter the performance of ecosystems. Nature 368, 734-737.
46. Norberg, J., 2000. Resource-niche complementarity and autotrophic compensation determines ecosystem-level responses to increased cladoceran species richness. Oecologia 122, 264-272.
47. Norberg, J., Swaney, D. P., Dushoff, J., Lin, J., Casagrandi, R., Levin, S. A., 2001. Phenotypic diversity and ecosystem functioning in changing environments: a theoretical framework. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 11376-11381.
48. Petchey, O. L., 2000. Prey diversity, prey composition, and predator population dynamics in experimental microcosms. J. Anim. Ecol. 69, 874-882.
49. Schippers, P., Verschoor, A. M., Vos, M., Mooij, W. M., 2001. Does "supersaturated coexistence" resolve the "paradox of the plankton"? Ecol. Let. 4, 404-407.
50. Thomas, C. D., Cameron, A., Green, R. E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L. J., Collingham, Y. C., Erasmus, B. F. N., Ferreira de Siqueira, M., Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., van Jaarsveld, A., Midgley, G. F., Miles, L., Ortega-Huerta, M. A., Peterson, A. T., Phillips, O. L., Williams, S. E., 2004. Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427, 145-148.
51. Tilman, D., Fargione, J., Wolff, B., D'Antonio, C., Dobson, A., Howarth, R., Schindler, D., Schlesinger, W. H., Simberloff, D., Swackhamer, D., 2001. Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change. Science 292, 281-284.
52. van der Heijden, M. G. A., Klironomos, J.N., Ursic, M., Moutoglis, P., Streitwolf-Engel, R., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., Sanders, I. R., 1998. Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variability and productivity. Nature 396, 69-72.
53. Waide, R. B., Willig, M. R., Steiner, C. F., Mittelbach, G., Gough, L., Dodson, S. I., Juday, G. P., Parmenter, R., 1999. The relationship between productivity and species richness. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 30, 257-300.
54. Wardle, D. A., 1999. Is "sampling effect" a problem for experiments investigating biodiversity- ecosystem function relationships. Oikos 89, 11-23.
55. Whittaker, R. J., Heegaard, E., 2003. What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Comment. Ecology 84, 3384-3390.
56. Witman, J. D., Etter, R. J., Smith, F., 2004. The relationship between regional and local species diversity in marine benthic communities: a global perspective. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 15664-15669.
57. Wommack, K. E., Colwell, R. R., 2000. Virioplankton: viruses in aquatic ecosystems. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 64, 69-114.
58. Wommack, K. E., Ravel, J., Hill, R. T., Chun, J., Colwell, R. R., 1999. Population dynamics of Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton: total-community analysis by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65, 231-240.
59. Yachi, S., Loreau, M., 1999. Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: the insurance hypothesis. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 1463-1468.
60. Zhong, Y., Chen, F., Wilhelm, S. W., Poorvin, E., Hodson, R. E., 2002. Phylogenetic diversity of marine cyanophage isolates and natural virus communities as revealed by sequences of viral capsid assembly protein gene g20. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68, 1576-1584.