Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

  • Gaëtane Le Provost,
  • Jan Thiele,
  • Catrin Westphal,
  • Caterina Penone,
  • Eric Allan,
  • Margot Neyret,
  • Fons van der Plas,
  • Manfred Ayasse,
  • Richard D. Bardgett,
  • Klaus Birkhofer,
  • Steffen Boch,
  • Michael Bonkowski,
  • Francois Buscot,
  • Heike Feldhaar,
  • Rachel Gaulton,
  • Kezia Goldmann,
  • Martin M. Gossner,
  • Valentin H. Klaus,
  • Till Kleinebecker,
  • Jochen Krauss,
  • Swen Renner,
  • Pascal Scherreiks,
  • Johannes Sikorski,
  • Dennis Baulechner,
  • Nico Blüthgen,
  • Ralph Bolliger,
  • Carmen Börschig,
  • Verena Busch,
  • Melanie Chisté,
  • Anna Maria Fiore-Donno,
  • Markus Fischer,
  • Hartmut Arndt,
  • Norbert Hoelzel,
  • Katharina John,
  • Kirsten Jung,
  • Markus Lange,
  • Carlo Marzini,
  • Jörg Overmann,
  • Esther Paŝalić,
  • David J. Perović,
  • Daniel Prati,
  • Deborah Schäfer,
  • Ingo Schöning,
  • Marion Schrumpf,
  • Ilja Sonnemann,
  • Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,
  • Marco Tschapka,
  • Manfred Türke,
  • Juliane Vogt,
  • Katja Wehner,
  • Christiane Weiner,
  • Wolfgang Weisser,
  • Konstans Wells,
  • Michael Werner,
  • Volkmar Wolters,
  • Tesfaye Wubet,
  • Susanne Wurst,
  • Andrey S. Zaitsev,
  • Peter Manning

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23931-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change. Here the authors measure diversity across multiple trophic levels in agricultural grassland landscapes of varying management, finding decoupled responses of above- and belowground taxa to local factors and a strong impact of landscape-level land use.