Figure 1 shows how having multiple species present in a plant community can stabilize ecosystem processes if species vary in their responses to environmental fluctuations such that an increased ...

Each food chain is a descriptive diagram including a series of arrows ... may have profound effects on species richness of community, and ecosystem productivity and stability (Ricklefs 2008).

Multivariate summaries of benthic community structure derived from functional group biomasses revealed striking differences between South Africa and Chile, as well as between regions north and south ...