Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

Francesco de Bello1, Sandra Lavorel1, Sandra Dı́az2, R. Harrington3, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen4, Richard D. Bardgett5, Matty P. Berg4, Pablo Ariel Cipriotti6, Christian K. Feld7, Daniel Hering7, Pedro Martins da Silva8, Simon G. Potts9, Leonard Sandin10, José Paulo Sousa8, Jonathan Storkey3, David A. Wardle11, Paula A. Harrison12
1Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, UMR CNRS 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
2MBIV (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina
3Department of Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts AL5 2JQ, UK
4Institute of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
5Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Soil and Ecosystem Ecology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
6Cátedra de Métodos Cuantitativos Aplicados, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1417DSE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
7Applied Zoology/Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Geography, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany
8IMAR-CIC, Department of Zoology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517, Coimbra, Portugal
9Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading, Reading, Berks, RG6 6AR, UK
10Department of Environmental Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
11Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83 Umeå, Sweden
12Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK

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