CORDIS OpenAire Electronic Publication Information Center Sygma HAL INRAE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) UnpayWall HAL-IRD Publikationenserver der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Crossref HAL Descartes Microsoft Academic Graph Europe PubMed Central European Union Open Data Portal Open Access 2019-07-23 2019-10-10 Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has prompted biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most active fields of ecological research in the past 25 years. Hundreds of experiments have manipulated biodiversity as an independent variable and found compelling support that the functioning of ecosystems increases with the diversity of their ecological communities. This research has also identified some of the mechanisms underlying BEF relationships, some context-dependencies of the strength of relationships, as well as implications for various ecosystem services that mankind depends upon. In this paper, we argue that a multitrophic perspective of biotic interactions in random and non-random biodiversity change scenarios is key to advance future BEF research and to address some of its most important remaining challenges. We discuss that the study and the quantification of multitrophic interactions in space and time facilitates scaling up from small-scale biodiversity manipulations and ecosystem function assessments to management-relevant spatial scales across ecosystem boundaries. We specifically consider multitrophic conceptual frameworks to understand and predict the context-dependency of BEF relationships. Moreover, we highlight the importance of the eco-evolutionary underpinnings of multitrophic BEF relationships. We outline that FAIR data (meeting the standards of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) and reproducible processing will be key to advance this field of research by making it more integrative. Finally, we show how these BEF insights may be implemented for ecosystem management, society, and policy. Given that human well-being critically depends on the multiple services provided by diverse, multitrophic communities, integrating the approaches of evolutionary ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology in future BEF research will be key to refine conservation targets and develop sustainable management strategies. 580 Biodiversity change 0301 basic medicine 570 0303 health sciences Geography & travel 577 Food web Spatial scaling 910 15. Life on land ddc:910 Ecosystem functions Management [SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology 03 medical and health sciences Eco-evolution 13. Climate action 11. Sustainability Multifunctionality Landscape info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/910 [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology Real-world biodiversity change Sebastian T. Meyer, Cameron Wagg, Cameron Wagg, Alexandru Milcu, Manfred Türke, Teja Tscharntke, Jörg Müller, Jörg Müller, Helge Bruelheide, Jana S. Petermann, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Hans de Kroon, Alexandra Weigelt, Bernhard Schmid, Darren P. Giling, Darren P. Giling, Malte Jochum, Malte Jochum, Andreas Schuldt, Christoph Scherber, Birgitta König-Ries, Andrew D. Barnes, Olga Ferlian, Nico Eisenhauer, Helmut Hillebrand, Eva Koller-France, Stefan A. Schnitzer, François Buscot, Fons van der Plas, Holger Schielzeth, David A. Wardle, Nicole M. van Dam, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Charles A. Nock, Charles A. Nock, Forest Isbell, Ulrich Brose, Anja Vogel, Anja Vogel, Nina Buchmann, Aletta Bonn, Christiane Roscher, Grégoire T. Freschet, Kathryn E. Barry, Christian Wirth, Anne Ebeling, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Jes Hines, 2019-01-01 Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has prompted biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most active fields of ecological research in the past 25 years. Hundreds of experiments have manipulated biodiversity as an independent variable and found compelling support that the functioning of ecosystems increases with the diversity of their ecological communities. This research has also identified some of the mechanisms underlying BEF relationships, some context-dependencies of the strength of relationships, as well as implications for various ecosystem services that mankind depends upon. In this paper, we argue that a multitrophic perspective of biotic interactions in random and non-random biodiversity change scenarios is key to advance future BEF research and to address some of its most important remaining challenges. We discuss that the study and the quantification of multitrophic interactions in space and time facilitates scaling up from small-scale biodiversity manipulations and ecosystem function assessments to management-relevant spatial scales across ecosystem boundaries. We specifically consider multitrophic conceptual frameworks to understand and predict the context-dependency of BEF relationships. Moreover, we highlight the importance of the eco-evolutionary underpinnings of multitrophic BEF relationships. We outline that FAIR data (meeting the standards of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) and reproducible processing will be key to advance this field of research by making it more integrative. Finally, we show how these BEF insights may be implemented for ecosystem management, society, and policy. Given that human well-being critically depends on the multiple services provided by diverse, multitrophic communities, integrating the approaches of evolutionary ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology in future BEF research will be key to refine conservation targets and develop sustainable management strategies. A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.001 publication https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.001