Studies of global change and associated declines in

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctica; carbon cycling; climate change; McMurdo Dry Valleys; nematode; soil biodiversity; Taylor Valley; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.663.9789; http://adamslab.byu.edu/Portals/74/docs/Papers/Barrett2008GlobalChangeBiology.pdf

Low-diversity ecosystems cover large portions of the Earth’s land surface, yet studies of climate change on ecosystem functioning typically focus on temperate ecosystems, where diversity is high and the effects of individual species on ecosystem functioning are difficult to determine. We show that a...