Reply to Byrnes et al.: Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511; [email protected].
• ² Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027;
• ³ Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom;
• ⁴ The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, United Kingdom;
• ⁵ Zoologisches Institute, University of Cologne, D-50674 Köln, Germany;
• ⁶ Centre for Population Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom;
• ⁷ Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4;
• ⁸ Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany;
• ⁹ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, CH-3013 Bern, Switzerland;
• ¹⁰ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland; and.
• ¹¹ School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom.