sBEF short course material

Biodiversity & Ecosystem functioning under anthropogenic stressors

Day 1: The basics of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) and anthropogenic stressors

1. The history of BEF research, motivations, questions, conflicts
2. Background of stressor impacts on biodiversity
3. Systematic review design
4. Develop questions and keywords.

Day 2: BEF analyses and meta-analyses

1. Measuring biodiversity
2. Analyzing BEF experiments: measuring selection and complementarity
3. NULL
4. Further develop questions and review strategies

Day 3: Data synthesis

1. Synthesizing stressors: Reviews and meta-analyses
2. BEF experiments: design and outcomes; How do different biodiversity measures compare?
3. Synthesizing BEF: Reviews and meta-analyses
4. Refine search strings, collect evidence

Day 4: How stressors impact BEF

1. Stressor impacts on BEF relationships: theory and evidence
2. Building conceptual models/frameworks for stressor effects on BEF
3. Present conceptual models/frameworks
4. Refine search strings, collect evidence

Extra: multifunctionality and ecosystem services from 2.2

Day 5 (optional): Groups wanting to push forward with review meta-analysis will meet to carry out tasks and develop plan.

Here are course materials:

• Lecture 1.1
• Lecture 1.2
• Lecture 1.3: Example Registered Report.
• Lecture 2.1
• Lecture 2.2
• Lecture 3.1
• Lecture 3.2 (2.3)
• Lecture 4.1
• Lecture 4.2
• Lecture 4.3

• Session 1.3: Example (long) data collection form (manual), example (short) data collection form; and the spreadsheet to create review form. Use this paper as an example.
• Session 2.1 and 2.2: R code: Github
• Session 3.1: Reading by Weiskopf et al. 2020; Hong et al. 2021; Berlinches de Gea et al. 2022; Jackson et al. 2015.
• Session 4.1: Readings: 1-Cardinale et al. 2006; 2-Balvanera et al. 2006; 3-Tilman et al. 2014; 4-Cardinale et al. 2007; 5-Raffard et al. 2019.

Synthesis subgroup items

• Synthesis topics