All LARGE-SCALE BIODIVERSITY EXPERIMENTS

biodiversity A contraction of biological diversity that encompasses all biological variation from the level of genes, through populations, species, and functional groups (and sometimes higher levels such as landscape units). ecosystem functioning An umbrella term for the processes operating in an ecosystem. ecosystem processes The biogeochemical flows of energy and matter within and between ecosystems, for example, primary production and nutrient cycling. ecosystem services An ecosystem process that is beneficial for human beings, for example, the provision of foods and materials, sequestration of carbon dioxide, and stabilization of soils. factorial design Involves all possible combinations of the levels of the crossed experimental factors (fully factorial) or an incomplete but informative combination of levels (fractional factorial).

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