Ecosystem Vulnerability to Species Loss

Veshchinskaya, V., Brännström, Å., Rovenskaya, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2761-3443, & Dieckmann, U. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-0393 (2012). Ecosystem Vulnerability to Species Loss. In: Worlds Within Reach: From Science To Policy - IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 24-26 October 2012, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.

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Abstract

Species losses have always occurred as a natural phenomenon, but the pace at which species are going extinct has recently accelerated dramatically as a result of human activities. The disappearance of a species can have far-reaching and often unexpected consequences for other species, since changes can propagate throughout ecosystems. Hence, the following questions arise:

- How does the collapse of one ecosystem compartment (species or functional groups) influence the remaining ecosystem compartments?

- How is an ecosystem.s structure related to its vulnerability to compartment collapses?

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