Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: It is time for dispersal experiments

摘要: Abstract The experimental study of the relationship between bio-diversity and ecosystem function has mainly addressed effect species number functional groups. In theory, this approach focused on how extinction affects function, whereas dispersal limitation been rarely discussed. A handful seed introduction experiments, as well numerous observations effects long-distance alien species, indicate that may be strongly determined by at local, regional and/or global scales. We suggest it is time to replace biodiversity manipulation based random draw with those addressing realistic scenarios either or dispersal. Experiments disentangling should have take into account probability arrival. latter defined a propagule particular will arrive par...