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Ecosystem Functioning

Ecosystem Functioning is an integrative systems-level property of an ecosystem that denotes the combined magnitude, rates, and interactions of its biotic and abiotic processes—such as primary production, decomposition, energy flow, and nutrient cycling—that maintain ecosystem structure and underlie the provision of ecosystem services.

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Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis

Millenium Ecosystem Assessment · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2005 · 10.7K citations · Full text

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EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

David U. Hooper, F. Stuart Chapin, John J. Ewel et al. · Ecological Monographs · 2005 · 7.9K citations · Full text

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Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

Marten Scheffer, Jonathan A. Foley, Carl Folke et al. · Nature · 2001 · 7.3K citations

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Changes in the global value of ecosystem services

Robert Costanza, R.S. de Groot, Paul C. Sutton et al. · Global Environmental Change · 2014 · 6.1K citations · Full text

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Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

Emma Pharo, Gretchen C. Daily · The Bryologist · 1998 · 5.3K citations

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    Sandra Lavorel

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    28 publications · 18.3K citations

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  2. RC
    Robert Costanza

    Australian National University, Australia

    28 publications · 10.9K citations

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    Bojie Fu

    Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China

    27 publications · 2.5K citations

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    Michel Loreau

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    25 publications · 15.6K citations

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    Berta Martín‐López

    Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

    24 publications · 4.2K citations

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    70 h-index

    667 publications

    74.1K citations

  2. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    64 h-index

    204 publications

    53.3K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    63 h-index

    341 publications

    64.9K citations

  4. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    52 h-index

    184 publications

    28.5K citations

  5. Beijing Normal University

    Beijing, China

    48 h-index

    289 publications

    21.6K citations

  6. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    46 h-index

    285 publications

    16.8K citations

  7. Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences

    Beijing, China

    43 h-index

    215 publications

    33.9K citations

  8. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    42 h-index

    81 publications

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  1. Ecological Indicators

    198 publications · 18.8K citations

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  2. Ecosystem Services

    191 publications · 19K citations

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  3. The Science of The Total Environment

    115 publications · 10.1K citations

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  4. Ecological Economics

    83 publications · 21.9K citations

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  5. Ecological Modelling

    99 publications · 7.6K citations

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