Introduction to the Special Issue "Functional monitoring in megadiverse tropical ecosystems"

被引：4
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作者：
Farwig, Nina [1 ]
Bendix, Joerg [2 ]
Beck, Erwin [3 ]
机构：
[1] Philipps Univ Marburg, Fac Biol, Conservat Ecol, Karl von Frisch Str 8, D-35043 Marburg, Germany
[2] Philipps Univ Marburg, Fac Geog, Lab Climatol & Remote Sensing, Deutschhausstr 12, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
[3] Univ Bayreuth, Bayreuth Ctr Ecol & Environm Res BAYCEER, Univ Str 30, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
来源：
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS | 2017年 / 83卷
关键词：
Biodiversity; Ecosystem functions; Ecuador; Global change effects; Functional monitoring systems; BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS; DIVERSITY; SERVICES; IMPACTS;
D O I：
10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.02.027
中图分类号：
X176 [生物多样性保护];
学科分类号：
090705 ;
摘要：
Land-use and climate change are major threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Most of the current biodiversity monitoring systems are based on periodic records of the populations of a set of threatened or popular 'flagship' indicator species. In contrast to the abundance-based monitoring of species, also specific indicators of processes and functional interactions in an ecosystem may become targets of a more functional monitoring which can unveil early responses of an ecosystem to environmental changes at different spatial and temporal scales. The contributions of this Special Issue present such functional indicators for assessing and predicting responses to environmental changes of ecosystem functions in a hotspot of tropical biodiversity. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页数：3
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