Mora, Camilo and Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio and Bocos, Arturo Ayala and Ayotte, Paula M. and Banks, Stuart and Bauman, Andrew G. and Beger, Maria and Bessudo, Sandr and Booth, David J. and Brokovich, Eran and Brooks, Andrew and Chabanet, Pascale and Cinner, Joshua E. and Cores, Jorge and Cruz-Motta, Juan J. and Magana, Amilcar Cupul and DeMartini, Edward E. and Edgar, Graham J. and Feary, David A. and Ferse, Sebastian C.A. and Friedlander, Alan M. and Gaston, Kevin J. and Gough, Charlotte and Graham, Nicholas A.J. and Green, Aliso and Guzman, Hector and Hardt, Marah and Kulbicki, Michel and Letourneur, Yves and Perez, Andres Lopez and Loreau, Michel and Loya, Yossi and Martinez, Camilo and Mascarenas-Osorio, Ismael and Morove, Tau and Nadon, Marc-Olivie and Nakamura, Yohei and Paredes, Gustavo and Polunin, Nicholas V.C. and Pratchett, Morgan S. and Bonilla, Hector Reyes and Rivera, Fernando and Sala, Enric and Sandin, Stuart A. and Soler, German and Stuart-Smith, Rick and Tessier, Emmanuel and Tittensor, Derek P. and Tupper, Mark and Usseglio, Paolo and Vigliola, Laurent and Wantiez, Lauren and Williams, Ivor and Wilson, Shaun K. and Zapata, Fernando A. (2011) Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes. PLoS Biology.
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Difficulties in scaling up theoretical and experimental results have raised controversy over the consequences of biodiversity loss for the functioning of natural ecosystems. Using a global survey of reef fish assemblages, we show that in contrast to previous theoretical and experimental studies, ecosystem functioning (as measured by standing biomass) scales in a nonsaturating manner with biodiversity (as measured by species and functional richness) in this ecosystem. Our field study also shows a significant and negative interaction between human population density and biodiversity on ecosystem functioning (i.e., for the same human density there were larger reductions in standing biomass at more diverse reefs). Human effects were found to be related to fishing, coastal development, and land use stressors, and currently affect over 75 per cent of the world's coral reefs. Our results indicate that the consequences of biodiversity loss in coral reefs have been considerably underestimated based on existing knowledge and that reef fish assemblages, particularly the most diverse, are greatly vulnerable to the expansion and intensity of anthropogenic stressors in coastal areas.
| Item Type: | Documents |
|---|---|
| Class Number: | 700.GLO017 |
| Keywords: | Biodiversity, Ecosystem Based Management, Fisheries, Fish, Habitat, Environmental Management, Reef Fisheries, Pollution, Coastal Area Management, Environmental Impact |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2022 04:56 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2022 04:56 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/15220 |
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