Functional biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas: an interdisciplinary approach (DiverSus)
Investigator(s)
Principal investigator:
Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
E-mail: sdiaz(at)com.uncor.edu
Abstract
One of the main ways in which land use change can alter ecosystem functioning and services is by causing shifts in the plant functional biodiversity (i.e. the value, range and relative abundance of plant functional traits present in a given ecosystem, hereafter FB). These alterations modify the ecosystem services perceived by different stakeholders, both locally and remotely. The DiverSus project focuses on the design and implementation of a new interdisciplinary framework to analyze and compare field studies of land use change in the Americas from the tropics to the tundra.
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