Nature Communications (Jul 2018)
Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests
- Andreas Schuldt,
- Thorsten Assmann,
- Matteo Brezzi,
- François Buscot,
- David Eichenberg,
- Jessica Gutknecht,
- Werner Härdtle,
- Jin-Sheng He,
- Alexandra-Maria Klein,
- Peter Kühn,
- Xiaojuan Liu,
- Keping Ma,
- Pascal A. Niklaus,
- Katherina A. Pietsch,
- Witoon Purahong,
- Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,
- Bernhard Schmid,
- Thomas Scholten,
- Michael Staab,
- Zhiyao Tang,
- Stefan Trogisch,
- Goddert von Oheimb,
- Christian Wirth,
- Tesfaye Wubet,
- Chao-Dong Zhu,
- Helge Bruelheide
Affiliations
- Andreas Schuldt
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- Thorsten Assmann
- Institute of Ecology, Leüphana University Lüneburg
- Matteo Brezzi
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
- François Buscot
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- David Eichenberg
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- Jessica Gutknecht
- Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- Werner Härdtle
- Institute of Ecology, Leüphana University Lüneburg
- Jin-Sheng He
- Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Alexandra-Maria Klein
- Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg
- Peter Kühn
- Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, Eberhard Karls-University of Tübingen
- Xiaojuan Liu
- Institure of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Keping Ma
- Institure of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Pascal A. Niklaus
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
- Katherina A. Pietsch
- Department of Systematic Botany and Biodiversity, Leipzig University
- Witoon Purahong
- Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
- Faculty of Biology, Geobotany, University of Freiburg
- Bernhard Schmid
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
- Thomas Scholten
- Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, Eberhard Karls-University of Tübingen
- Michael Staab
- Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg
- Zhiyao Tang
- Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Stefan Trogisch
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- Goddert von Oheimb
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- Christian Wirth
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- Tesfaye Wubet
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- Chao-Dong Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Helge Bruelheide
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzigv
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05421-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Biodiversity change can impact ecosystem functioning, though this is primarily studied at lower trophic levels. Here, Schuldt et al. find that biodiversity components other than tree species richness are particularly important, and higher trophic level diversity plays a role in multifunctionality.
