Biodiversity increases the ability of ecosystems to provide multiple functions. Most studies report a positive relationship between species richness and the number of ecosystem functions. However, it ...

We characterized community structure in terms of biomass allocation of functional groups, estimated leaf primary production and litter persistence, and performed analyses of variance for each of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We suggest that relatively few species attributes are of overriding importance to the structure of benthic marine algal communities and that ...