ena-STUDY-FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA-10-10-2019-17:01:18:340-106
Biodiversity effects on community ecosystem functions
We used synthetic bacterial communities to test the independent effects of two aspects of biodiversity, phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity, on ecosystem functioning, expecting that greater diversity would be associated with greater ecosystem function. To study these effects, we used bacterial isolates to construct communities with different diversity traits and employed exoenzyme activities (EEAs) as proxies of bacterial functioning.
We used synthetic bacterial communities to test the independent effects of two aspects of biodiversity, phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity, on ecosystem functioning, expecting that greater diversity would be associated with greater ecosystem function. To study these effects, we used bacterial isolates to construct communities with different diversity traits and employed exoenzyme activities (EEAs) as proxies of bacterial functioning.