Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services. Dobson Andrew, Lodge David, Alder Jackie, Cumming Graeme S., Keymer Juan, McGlade Jacquie, Mooney Hal, Rusak James A., Sala Osvaldo, Wolters Volkmar, Wall Diana, Winfree Rachel, & Xenopoulos Marguerite A. Ecology, 87(8):1915–1924, August, 2006.
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The provisioning of sustaining goods and services that we obtain from natural ecosystems is a strong economic justification for the conservation of biological diversity. Understanding the relationship between these goods and services and changes in the size, arrangement, and quality of natural habitats is a fundamental challenge of natural resource management. In this paper, we describe a new approach to assessing the implications of habitat loss for loss of ecosystem services by examining how the provision of different ecosystem services is dominated by species from different trophic levels. We then develop a mathematical model that illustrates how declines in habitat quality and quantity lead to sequential losses of trophic diversity. The model suggests that declines in the provisioning of services will initially be slow but will then accelerate as species from higher trophic levels are lost at faster rates. Comparison of these patterns with empirical examples of ecosystem collapse (and assembly) suggest similar patterns occur in natural systems impacted by anthropogenic change. In general, ecosystem goods and services provided by species in the upper trophic levels will be lost before those provided by species lower in the food chain. The decrease in terrestrial food chain length predicted by the model parallels that observed in the oceans following overexploitation. The large area requirements of higher trophic levels make them as susceptible to extinction as they are in marine systems where they are systematically exploited. Whereas the traditional species?area curve suggests that 50% of species are driven extinct by an order?of?magnitude decline in habitat abundance, this magnitude of loss may represent the loss of an entire trophic level and all the ecosystem services performed by the species on this trophic level.
@article{dobson_andrew_habitat_2006,
	title = {Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services},
	volume = {87},
	issn = {0012-9658},
	url = {https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/0012-9658%282006%2987%5B1915%3AHLTCAT%5D2.0.CO%3B2},
	doi = {10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1915:HLTCAT]2.0.CO;2},
	abstract = {The provisioning of sustaining goods and services that we obtain from natural ecosystems is a strong economic justification for the conservation of biological diversity. Understanding the relationship between these goods and services and changes in the size, arrangement, and quality of natural habitats is a fundamental challenge of natural resource management. In this paper, we describe a new approach to assessing the implications of habitat loss for loss of ecosystem services by examining how the provision of different ecosystem services is dominated by species from different trophic levels. We then develop a mathematical model that illustrates how declines in habitat quality and quantity lead to sequential losses of trophic diversity. The model suggests that declines in the provisioning of services will initially be slow but will then accelerate as species from higher trophic levels are lost at faster rates. Comparison of these patterns with empirical examples of ecosystem collapse (and assembly) suggest similar patterns occur in natural systems impacted by anthropogenic change. In general, ecosystem goods and services provided by species in the upper trophic levels will be lost before those provided by species lower in the food chain. The decrease in terrestrial food chain length predicted by the model parallels that observed in the oceans following overexploitation. The large area requirements of higher trophic levels make them as susceptible to extinction as they are in marine systems where they are systematically exploited. Whereas the traditional species?area curve suggests that 50\% of species are driven extinct by an order?of?magnitude decline in habitat abundance, this magnitude of loss may represent the loss of an entire trophic level and all the ecosystem services performed by the species on this trophic level.},
	number = {8},
	urldate = {2018-03-17},
	journal = {Ecology},
	author = {{Dobson Andrew} and {Lodge David} and {Alder Jackie} and {Cumming Graeme S.} and {Keymer Juan} and {McGlade Jacquie} and {Mooney Hal} and {Rusak James A.} and {Sala Osvaldo} and {Wolters Volkmar} and {Wall Diana} and {Winfree Rachel} and {Xenopoulos Marguerite A.}},
	month = aug,
	year = {2006},
	keywords = {biodiversity, boundaries, collapse},
	pages = {1915--1924},
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