Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Disaggregating the evidence linking biodiversity and ecosystem services

  • Taylor H. Ricketts,
  • Keri B. Watson,
  • Insu Koh,
  • Alicia M. Ellis,
  • Charles C. Nicholson,
  • Stephen Posner,
  • Leif L. Richardson,
  • Laura J. Sonter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13106
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Biodiversity can enhance ecosystem services such as crop pollination. Here, Ricketts et al. synthesize 14 years of literature to show that biodiversity-ecosystem services relationships depend on the service, how services and biodiversity are each measured, and the approach used to link them.