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Methodology is available from: J. Emmett Duffy, et al. Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: A global comparative-experimental approach. Ecology Letters 18:7 (696–705). DOI: 10.1111/ele.12448.

Table S1. Codes and locations of sites

Code	Site	Latitude	Longitude	Principal Investigator
AK	Kachemak Bay, Alaska, USA	59.648	-151.436	Iken
BB	Bodega Bay, California, USA	38.317	-123.033	Stachowicz
BC	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	49.000	-123.100	O'Connor
FI	Ängsö Island, Finland	60.100	21.700	Boström
JN	Akkeshi-Ko Estuary, Hokkaido, Japan	43.060	144.911	Nakaoka
JS	Akiwan Bay, Hiroshima, Japan	34.178	132.550	Hori
MA	Nahant, Massachusetts, USA	42.426	-70.919	Douglass
NC	Beaufort, North Carolina, USA	34.683	-76.600	Reynolds, Sotka
NN	Misvaerfjord, Bodø, Norway	67.233	15.200	Olsen, Eriksson, Horeau
PO	Ria Formosa Lagoon, Portugal	36.997	-7.829	Engelen
QU	Pointe-Lebel, Quebec, Canada	49.113	68.179	Cusson
SD	San Diego Bay, CA, USA	32.714	-117.226	Hovel
SW	Gullmar Fjord, Sweden	58.314	11.548	Moksnes/Fredriksen
VA	Goodwin Islands, Gloucester Point, Virginia	37.217	-76.383	Duffy/Reynolds
WA	Willapa Bay, Washington, USA	46.500	-124.000	Ruesink

1b:T183e,NSF Project Title: "Biodiversity and Complex Forcing of Ecosystem Functioning in the Marine Foundation Species, Eelgrass: A Global Experimental Network" Description from NSF award abstract: This project will develop a global collaborative network of field experiments to quantify how resources and grazing interactively affect biomass, production, and trophic transfer along natural gradients in biodiversity and abiotic forcing. It focuses on a key mutualism between invertebrate mesograzers and the globally distributed eelgrass (Zostera marina), as a model system and as the foundation of important but threatened coastal ecosystems worldwide. This interaction provided a model for influential experiments linking biodiversity to functioning (BEF) of multitrophic ecosystems. Yet, seagrass ecology has historically focused almost exclusively on bottom-up forcing, and impacts of these ubiquitous animals in the field are nearly unknown.The research program will address three questions: (1) What role do crustacean mesograzers, the benthic equivalents of grazing copepods, play in regulating vegetated coastal ecosystem functioning and buffering effects of eutrophication? (2) Are generalizations derived from 15 years of BEF experiments consistent with variation in ecosystem properties along natural diversity gradients in complex, open marine systems? (3) Do relative influences and interactions of resource supply, grazing pressure, and biodiversity on ecological processes vary systematically with climate and abiotic environmental drivers? Methods will include two novel approaches. First, a new technique that excludes crustacean mesograzers without cage artifacts will rigorously test their long-suspected role in fostering macrophyte dominance. The project assembles experienced collaborators who will conduct identical factorial experiments manipulating grazers and nutrient loading at each of 12 sites spanning the sub-global range of eelgrass, across concomitant gradients in diversity and abiotic forcing variables. Second, Structural Equation Models (SEM), designed specifically to quantify relative importance and interactions among variables in complex systems, will tease apart effects of resource supply, grazer biomass, species composition, and richness, and several abiotic variables on eelgrass and algal biomass, production, and trophic transfer. Small-scale experiments with synthesized communities show that biodiversity generally enhances production and resource use in a range of ecosystems, but the importance of diversity relative to other well-documented forcing factors remains poorly understood. Intriguingly, BEF relationships in the few studies from wild ecosystems often saturate at much higher richness than in experiments, suggesting that prior work may underestimate rather than overestimate functional effects of diversity. Yet few large-scale data sets are available to evaluate this conjecture. This research will do so on a global scale in eelgrass beds, one of the few community types in which such a test is possible. This project will initiate a lasting, and open, collaborative network of researchers studying the functioning of multitrophic marine vegetation ecosystems. It leverages a wealth of globally distributed collaborator expertise, person power, and experience with multinational partnerships including a new network of marine plant-herbivore ecologists funded by the Australian Research Council; the Census of Marine Life's NaGISA project; and key partners in MarBEF's BIOFUSE project. It will thus catalyze integration of several formerly independent research efforts. Data: Data are expected to be submitted in 2014. Data will include plant and animal responses to top-down and bottom-up manipulations in eelgrass (Zostera marina) habitat from 16 sites across the northern hemisphere (in Japan, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Portugal). Publications produced as a result of this research: Poore AGB, Campbell AH, Coleman RA, Edgar GJ, Jormalainen V, Reynolds PL, Sotka EE, Stachowicz JJ, Taylor RB, Vanderklift MA, Duffy JE. 2012. Global patterns in the impact of marine herbivores on benthic primary producers. Ecology Letters. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01804.x Naeem S, Duffy JE, Zavaleta E. 2012. The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction. Science, v.336, p. 1401. DOI: 10.1126/science.1215855 Cardinale BJ, Duffy JE, Gonzalez A, Hooper DU, Perrings C, Venail P, Narwani A, Mace GM, Tilman D, Wardle DA, Kinzig AP, Daily GC, Loreau M, Grace JB, Larigauderie A, Srivastava D, Naeem S. 2012. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature, v.486, 2012, p. 59. DOI: 10.1038/nature11148 Hooper DU, Adair EC, Cardinale BJ, Byrnes JEK, Hungate BA, Matulich KL, Gonzalez A, Duffy JE, Gamfeldt L, O'Connor MI. 2012. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change. Nature, v.486, p. 10. DOI: 10.1038/nature11118 Additional publications produced as a result of this research: Duffy, J. E., P. L. Reynolds, C. Boström, J. A. Coyer, M. Cusson, S. Donadi, J. G. Douglass, J. S. Eklöf, A. H. Engelen, B. K. Eriksson, S. Fredriksen, L. Gamfeldt, C. Gustafsson, G. Hoarau, M. Hori, K. Hovel, K. Iken, J. S. Lefcheck, P.-O. Moksnes, M. Nakaoka, M. I. O'Connor, J. L. Olsen, J. P. Richardson, J. L. Ruesink, E. E. Sotka, J. Thormar, M. A. Whalen, and J. J. Stachowicz. 2015. Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative-experimental approach. Ecology Letters 18:696–705. Reynolds, P. L., J. Paul Richardson, and J. Emmett Duffy. 2014. Field experimental evidence that grazers mediate transition between microalgal and seagrass dominance. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 59:1053–1064. Duffy, J. E., P.-O. Moksnes, and A. R. Hughes. 2013. Ecology of Seagrass Communities. Pages 271–297 in M. D. Bertness, J. F. Bruno, B. R. Silliman, and J. J. Stachowicz, editors. "Marine Community Ecology and Conservation". Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. Whalen, M. A., J. E. Duffy, and J. B. Grace. 2013. Temporal shifts in top-down versus bottom-up control of epiphytic algae in a seagrass ecosystem. Ecology 94:510–520.6:["$","$L19",null,{"dataset":{"_id":"659737","description":"","problem":"","acquisition":"$1a","processing":"

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