title: Reply to Byrnes et al.: Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality.
authors.affiliation: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511; mark.bradford@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bradford
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027;
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom;
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Bardgett
authors.affiliation: The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, United Kingdom;
authors.forename: Helaina I J
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Black
authors.affiliation: Zoologisches Institute, University of Cologne, D-50674 Köln, Germany;
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonkowski
authors.affiliation: Centre for Population Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom;
authors.forename: Till
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eggers
authors.affiliation: Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4;
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Grayston
authors.affiliation: Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany;
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kandeler
authors.affiliation: Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, CH-3013 Bern, Switzerland;
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Manning
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland; and.
authors.forename: Heikki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Setälä
authors.affiliation: School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: T Hefin
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D017753:Ecosystem; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012987:Soil