Biodiversity &
Ecosystem Functioning
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functioning
We are interested in understanding how ecological diversity and functioning are affected in human-modified landscapes, and use surveys along habitat modification gradients to detect patterns, combined with manipulative field experiments, to gain a mechanistic understanding of ecological interactions and biodiversity-function linkages.
With our collaborators, we have developed new approaches to measuring species interactions on ecosystem multifunctionality in terrestrial animal systems, and shown that optimising multifunctionality is context-dependent and contingent upon how ecosystem services are valued.
Selected Publications
Keller N, Meerveld IV, Ghazoul J, Chiew LY, Philipson CD, Godoong E, Slade EM (2021). Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration. Ecological Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13094
Priyadarshana, TS, Lee MB, Ascher JS, Qiu L, Goodale E (2021). Crop heterogeneity is positively associated with beneficial insect diversity in subtropical farmlands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14005x
Slade EM, Bagchi R, Keller N, Philipson CD (2019). When Do More Species Maximize More Ecosystem Services? Trends in Plant Science 24(9): 790-793.
