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Functional responses of multitaxa communities to disturbance and stress gradients in a restored floodplain

2015

Trait-based approaches can reveal the mechanisms through which disturbances or stress impact communities, allowing comparisons of the role of different mechanisms in shaping communities among taxonomic groups. Such information can lead to higher comparability, transferability and predictability of the outcome of restoration projects. However, multitaxa trait-based approaches were rarely used in the context of ecosystem restoration. We investigated the responses to environmental gradients of seven taxa (vascular plants, staphylinid and carabid beetles, spiders, isopods, diplopods and earthworms) in a restored floodplain using a species traits approach. We assessed the impact of flood disturb…

0106 biological sciencesrestorationFloodplainBiodiversityearthwormsarthropods010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesspecies traitsEcosystemFloodplain restorationRestoration ecologyComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSbiodiversityEnvironmental gradient[ SDE.BE ] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecologycommunity-weighted mean of traitsgeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryEcologyplantsEcology010604 marine biology & hydrobiology15. Life on landfunctional diversityriparian ecosystemsDisturbance (ecology)Hydric soilecosystem functionsEnvironmental science[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and EcologyJournal of Applied Ecology
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Data from: Functional responses of multi-taxa communities to disturbance and stress gradients in a restored floodplain

2015

1. Trait-based approaches can reveal the mechanisms through which disturbances or stress impact communities, allowing comparisons of the role of different mechanisms in shaping communities among taxonomic groups. Such information can lead to higher comparability, transferability and predictability of the outcome of restoration projects. However, multitaxa trait-based approaches were rarely used in the context of ecosystem restoration. 2. We investigated the responses to environmental gradients of seven taxa (vascular plants, staphylinid and carabid beetles, spiders, isopods, diplopods and earthworms) in a restored floodplain using a species traits approach. We assessed the impact of flood d…

Annelidacommunity weighted mean of traitsLife SciencesearthwormsStaphylinidaeriparian ecosystemsmedicine and health carespecies traitsDiplopodaAraneaecosystem functionsMedicineCarabidaePlantaeArthropodsIsopoda
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Data from: The relevance of ecological status to ecosystem functions and services in a large boreal lake

2015

1. Environmental conventions aim to protect ecosystem structures and functions to provide goods and services for mankind. The degree of aquatic ecosystem naturalness, or ecological status as it is defined in the Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the European Union, is notionally linked to supplies of ecosystem services. In practice these links have rarely been documented or even investigated and, to justify conservation and management objectives based on the status indicators, it is essential to demonstrate their relationships to ecosystem functions and services. 2. The WFD requires member states to classify their surface waters aiming to achieve good ecological status of water bodies. How…

medicine and health carebioassessmentWater Framework DirectiveHoloceneecological classificationlake ecosystemsLife SciencesMedicineecosystem functionslake managementlake recovery
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