Plant Diversity and its Relevance for the Provision of Ecosystem Services
Homeier J, Werner F, Adams J, Peters T, Diertl KH, Richter M (2013)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2013
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Edited Volumes: Ecosystem services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. Ecological Studies
Series: Ecological Studies
City/Town: Heidelberg
Book Volume: 221
Pages Range: 93-106
ISBN: 978-3-642-38137-9
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38137-9_8
Abstract
This chapter summarizes how plant species composition and richness in the Andean montane forests of southern Ecuador are driven by environmental heterogeneity. Natural vegetation dynamics of these highly diverse forests is dramatically affected by the current human land use practices with the consequence of an immense loss of species richness that most likely results in a drastic deterioration of ecosystem services on the landscape level. Basic knowledge about ecosystem functioning is still scarce for the region, and the study of plant functional traits should receive increasing attention, since these traits are the main attribute by which plants influence ecosystem functioning and thus ecosystem services.
Authors with CRIS profile
Julia Adams
Institut für Geographie
Thorsten Peters
Institut für Geographie
Michael Richter
Institut für Geographie
Involved external institutions
Germany (DE)How to cite
APA:
Homeier, J., Werner, F., Adams, J., Peters, T., Diertl, K.-H., & Richter, M. (2013). Plant Diversity and its Relevance for the Provision of Ecosystem Services. In Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Achim Bräuning, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl, Stefan Scheu, Wolfgang Wilcke (Eds.), Ecosystem services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. Ecological Studies. (pp. 93-106). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
MLA:
Homeier, Jürgen, et al. "Plant Diversity and its Relevance for the Provision of Ecosystem Services." Ecosystem services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. Ecological Studies. Ed. Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Achim Bräuning, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl, Stefan Scheu, Wolfgang Wilcke, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2013. 93-106.
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