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Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long-term natural experiment

Wardle, David A. ; Jonsson, Micael ; Bansal, Sheel ; Bardgett, Richard D. ; Gundale, Michael J. and Metcalfe, Dan LU (2012) In Journal of Ecology 100(1). p.16-30
Abstract
1. Despite recent interest in linkages between above- and below-ground communities and their consequences for ecosystem processes, much remains unknown about their responses to long-term ecosystem change. We synthesize multiple lines of evidence from a long-term natural experiment to illustrate how ecosystem retrogression (the decline in ecosystem process rates due to long-term absence of major disturbance) drives vegetation change, and thus above-ground and below-ground carbon (C) sequestration, and communities of consumer biota.
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above-ground, below-ground, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, chronosequence, island ecology, natural experiment, plant-soil, (below-ground) interactions, retrogression, succession
in
Journal of Ecology
volume
100
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1
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16 - 30
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Wiley-Blackwell
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  • wos:000298014400003
  • scopus:83455236452
ISSN
1365-2745
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01907.x
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English
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  author       = {{Wardle, David A. and Jonsson, Micael and Bansal, Sheel and Bardgett, Richard D. and Gundale, Michael J. and Metcalfe, Dan}},
  issn         = {{1365-2745}},
  keywords     = {{above-ground; below-ground; biodiversity; carbon sequestration; chronosequence; island ecology; natural experiment; plant-soil; (below-ground) interactions; retrogression; succession}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{16--30}},
  publisher    = {{Wiley-Blackwell}},
  series       = {{Journal of Ecology}},
  title        = {{Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long-term natural experiment}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01907.x}},
  doi          = {{10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01907.x}},
  volume       = {{100}},
  year         = {{2012}},
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