Relationships between biodiversity and the stability of marine ecosystems: Comparisons at a European scale using meta-analysis

TL;DR: This work provides a general explanation for variation in observed diversity-ecosystem variability relationships and highlights the importance of conserving regional species pools to help buffer ecosystems against predicted increases in environmental variability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of phytoplankton diversity on resource use efficiency (RUE, ratio of biomass to limiting resource) at the two trophic levels in the Galician upwelling system (NW Iberian peninsula) were studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the effect of biodiversity on the stability of ecosystems and compared the response to climatic versus non-climatic stressors, finding that the stabilizing effect of the biodiversity is weaker for the latter than the former, and suggested that this reflects bias in the representation of biomes and stability metrics in biodiversity.

TL;DR: A novel approach to construct an indicator system to evaluate the development of a land-sea coordination system and the results provide a scientific reference and decision-making basis for policy formulation and development evaluation of standard ports.

TL;DR: This study identified a ranking of the importance of drivers of change, aranking of the biomes with respect to expected changes, and the major sources of uncertainties in projections of future biodiversity change.

TL;DR: The commonly observed high diversity of trees in tropical rain forests and corals on tropical reefs is a nonequilibrium state which, if not disturbed further, will progress toward a low-diversity equilibrium community as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Understanding this complexity, while taking strong steps to minimize current losses of species, is necessary for responsible management of Earth's ecosystems and the diverse biota they contain.

TL;DR: A series of common pitfalls in quantifying and comparing taxon richness are surveyed, including category‐subcategory ratios (species-to-genus and species-toindividual ratios) and rarefaction methods, which allow for meaningful standardization and comparison of datasets.