Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Plant diversity alters the representation of motifs in food webs

  • Darren P. Giling,
  • Anne Ebeling,
  • Nico Eisenhauer,
  • Sebastian T. Meyer,
  • Christiane Roscher,
  • Michael Rzanny,
  • Winfried Voigt,
  • Wolfgang W. Weisser,
  • Jes Hines

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08856-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Plant diversity affects ecosystem function in myriad ways, but the effect on food webs has received less investigation. Here, the authors use high-resolution food web data from a grassland diversity experiment to show that apparent and exploitative competition motifs increase with plant diversity.