%A LIU Feng;HE Jin-Sheng and CHEN Wei-Lie %T The Ecosystem Function of Biodiversity %0 Journal Article %D 1999 %J Chinese Bulletin of Botany %R %P 671-676 %V 16 %N 06 %U {https://www.chinbullbotany.com/CN/abstract/article_2101.shtml} %8 1999-11-20 %X This review is about the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions and services. It focuses on the following parts: 1. hypotheses about different roles of different species in the ecosystem and how biodiversity affects ecosystem functions; 2. relations between biodiversity and stability of ecosystem; 3. how the biodiversity affects production of ecosystem; 4. the relation between biodiversity and sustainability of the ecosystem. Several problems for further research are also pointed out.