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Ecosystem-level Effects

**Ecosystem-Level Effects** is a category of ecological responses to toxicants characterized by alterations in the structure and functioning of whole ecosystems—such as changes in energy flow, nutrient cycling, community composition, and trophic interactions—that emerge from contaminant impacts on multiple populations and species interactions.

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Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail

Sandra Lavorel, Éric Garnier · Functional Ecology · 2002 · 3.4K citations

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Review of Ecological Effects of Roads on Terrestrial and Aquatic Communities

Stephen C. Trombulak, Christopher A. Frissell · Conservation Biology · 2000 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis

Roland Bobbink, Kevin Hicks, James N. Galloway et al. · Ecological Applications · 2010 · 2.7K citations

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Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

Jason M. Tylianakis, Raphaël K. Didham, Jordi Bascompte et al. · Ecology Letters · 2008 · 2.5K citations · Full text

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POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ORGANISMS AS PHYSICAL ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS

Clive G. Jones, John H. Lawton, Moshe Shachak · Ecology · 1997 · 2.3K citations

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    Paul J. Van den Brink

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    23 publications · 1.6K citations

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    Christoph D. Matthaei

    University of Otago, New Zealand

    15 publications · 1.8K citations

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    Frederik De Laender

    University of Namur, Belgium

    17 publications · 517 citations

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    David A. Wardle

    Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

    12 publications · 4.2K citations

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    Leo Posthuma

    National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands

    12 publications · 1.3K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    238 publications

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  2. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

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    124 publications

    9.7K citations

  3. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    30 h-index

    107 publications

    9.8K citations

  4. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    28 h-index

    122 publications

    7.2K citations

  5. Environmental Protection Agency

    Washington, United States

    27 h-index

    88 publications

    7.7K citations

  6. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    26 h-index

    80 publications

    3.8K citations

  7. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

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    58 publications

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  8. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

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  3. The Science of The Total Environment

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