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Functional biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas: an interdisciplinary approach

DiverSus is a network of scientists addressing links between land-use as a driver of global change, functional biodiversity shifts and ecosystem processes and services in the Americas. Our aims are:

- To develop the first comparison of the effects of land-use on functional biodiversity and to establish how this in turn has the potential to modify ecosystem processes in systems under different degrees of climatic control;

- To establish links between functional biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and major ecosystem services, as perceived by different local and non-local stakeholders;

- To develop a conceptual framework and a set of empirical tools and recommendations to be used as the basis for management decisions aimed to assess and optimize the ecosystem-service value of the land.