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@article{Jonathan2015MultitrophicFD,
title={Multitrophic functional diversity predicts ecosystem functioning in experimental assemblages of estuarine consumers.},
author={Jonathan and S. and Lefcheck and J. and Emmett J. Duffy},
journal={Ecology},
year={2015},
volume={96 11},
pages={
2973-83
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2058427}
}It is shown that functional diversity can be more accurate and effective than species richness in predicting community biomass in a food web context and that different species drove different ecosystem responses.