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      Recognizing the quiet extinction of invertebrates

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      Journal: Nature Communications
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          Invertebrates are central to the functioning of ecosystems, yet they are underappreciated and understudied. Recent work has shown that they are suffering from rapid decline. Here we call for a greater focus on invertebrates and make recommendations for future investigation.

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          Comparative losses of British butterflies, birds, and plants and the global extinction crisis.

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          There is growing concern about increased population, regional, and global extinctions of species. A key question is whether extinction rates for one group of organisms are representative of other taxa. We present a comparison at the national scale of population and regional extinctions of birds, butterflies, and vascular plants from Britain in recent decades. Butterflies experienced the greatest net losses, disappearing on average from 13% of their previously occupied 10-kilometer squares. If insects elsewhere in the world are similarly sensitive, the known global extinction rates of vertebrate and plant species have an unrecorded parallel among the invertebrates, strengthening the hypothesis that the natural world is experiencing the sixth major extinction event in its history.
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            The Little Things That Run the world* (The Importance and Conservation of Invertebrates)

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              Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

              Andreas Schuldt, Thorsten Assmann, Matteo Brezzi … (2018)
              Human-induced biodiversity change impairs ecosystem functions crucial to human well-being. However, the consequences of this change for ecosystem multifunctionality are poorly understood beyond effects of plant species loss, particularly in regions with high biodiversity across trophic levels. Here we adopt a multitrophic perspective to analyze how biodiversity affects multifunctionality in biodiverse subtropical forests. We consider 22 independent measurements of nine ecosystem functions central to energy and nutrient flow across trophic levels. We find that individual functions and multifunctionality are more strongly affected by the diversity of heterotrophs promoting decomposition and nutrient cycling, and by plant functional-trait diversity and composition, than by tree species richness. Moreover, cascading effects of higher trophic-level diversity on functions originating from lower trophic-level processes highlight that multitrophic biodiversity is key to understanding drivers of multifunctionality. A broader perspective on biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships is crucial for sustainable ecosystem management in light of non-random species loss and intensified biotic disturbances under future environmental change.
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                Nico Eisenhauer:
                ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0371-6720
                nico.eisenhauer@idiv.de
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nat Commun
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Nat Commun
                Title: Nature Communications
                Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK (London )
                ISSN (Electronic): 2041-1723
                Publication date (Electronic): 3 January 2019
                Publication date PMC-release: 3 January 2019
                Publication date Collection: 2019
                Volume: 10
                Electronic Location Identifier: 50
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.421064.5, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, ; Leipzig, Germany
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2230 9752, GRID grid.9647.c, Institute of Biology, , Leipzig University, ; Leipzig, Germany
                [3 ]ISNI 0000 0004 0492 3830, GRID grid.7492.8, Department of Ecosystem Services, , Helmholtz - Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, ; Leipzig, Germany
                [4 ]ISNI 0000 0001 1939 2794, GRID grid.9613.d, Institute of Biodiversity, , Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ; Jena, Germany
                [5 ]ISNI 0000 0001 0679 2801, GRID grid.9018.0, Institute of Biology, , Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), ; Halle, Germany
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                Publisher ID: 7916
                DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07916-1
                PMC ID: 6318294
                PubMed ID: 30604746
                SO-VID: 7b676fa6-511f-4b06-8522-a45a0f07cef6
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                Date received : 4 October 2018
                Date accepted : 4 December 2018
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