Abstract

1. Marine biodiversity: its history, present status and future threats 2. Biodiversity in the context of ecosystem function 3. Ecosystem function and co-evolution of terminology in marine science and management 4. Ecological consequences of declining biodiversity: A biodiversity-ecosystem function (BEF) framework for marine systems 5. Lessons from the fossil record: the Ediacaran radiation, the Cambrian radiation, and the end-Permian mass extinction 6. The analysis of biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments: partitioning richness and density-dependent effects 7. The importance of body size, abundance, and food web structure for ecosystem functioning 8. Effects of biodiversity-environment conditions on the interpretation of biodiversity-function relations 9. Extending the approaches of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning to the deep ocean 10. Incorporating extinction risk and realistic biodiversity futures: Implementation of trait based extinction scenarios 11. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: an ecosystem-level approach 12. Multitrophic biodiversity and the responses of marine ecosystems to global change 13. Reality check: issues of scale and abstraction in biodiversity research, and potential solutions 14. Why bother going outside: the role of observational studies in understanding biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships 15. Implementing an ecosystem approach: predicting and safeguarding marine biodiversity futures Index

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