Figure 1 shows how having multiple species present in a plant community can stabilize ecosystem processes if species vary in their responses to environmental fluctuations such that an increased ...

We study the processes and responses of boreal forest ecosystems on different levels, from the scale of tree parts and soil particles to the scale of landscape. We seek to understand how the ...

Single, cumulative, or synergistic processes linked to these factors can then lead to ecosystem dysfunction and serious depletion of resources (McLusky and Elliott, 2004; Adams, 2005; Borja et al., ...