Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Universal scaling of robustness of ecosystem services to species loss

  • Samuel R. P.-J. Ross,
  • Jean-François Arnoldi,
  • Michel Loreau,
  • Cian D. White,
  • Jane C. Stout,
  • Andrew L. Jackson,
  • Ian Donohue

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25507-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Responses of ecosystem services to species losses are highly context-dependent. Here, the authors develop a model to identify general rules in the robustness of ecosystem service supply to species losses, and demonstrate its applicability using real-world ecosystem service networks.