Consensus has been reached that global biodiversity loss impairs ecosystem functioning
and the sustainability of services beneficial to humanity. However, the ecosystem
consequences of extinction in natural communities are moderated by compensatory species
dynamics, yet these processes are rarely accounted for in impact assessments and seldom
considered in conservation programmes. Here, we use marine invertebrate communities to
parameterise numerical models of sediment bioturbation–a key mediator of biogeochemical …