Nature Communications (Mar 2019)
Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems
- Andreas Schuldt,
- Anne Ebeling,
- Matthias Kunz,
- Michael Staab,
- Claudia Guimarães-Steinicke,
- Dörte Bachmann,
- Nina Buchmann,
- Walter Durka,
- Andreas Fichtner,
- Felix Fornoff,
- Werner Härdtle,
- Lionel R. Hertzog,
- Alexandra-Maria Klein,
- Christiane Roscher,
- Jörg Schaller,
- Goddert von Oheimb,
- Alexandra Weigelt,
- Wolfgang Weisser,
- Christian Wirth,
- Jiayong Zhang,
- Helge Bruelheide,
- Nico Eisenhauer
Affiliations
- Andreas Schuldt
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Anne Ebeling
- Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- Matthias Kunz
- Institute of General Ecology and Environmental Protection, Technische Universität Dresden, PF 1117
- Michael Staab
- University of Freiburg, Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology
- Claudia Guimarães-Steinicke
- Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Leipzig University
- Dörte Bachmann
- ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Universitätsstrasse 2
- Nina Buchmann
- ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Universitätsstrasse 2
- Walter Durka
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Andreas Fichtner
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology
- Felix Fornoff
- University of Freiburg, Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology
- Werner Härdtle
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology
- Lionel R. Hertzog
- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Gent University
- Alexandra-Maria Klein
- University of Freiburg, Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology
- Christiane Roscher
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Jörg Schaller
- University Bayreuth, Environmental Geochemistry, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), Universitätsstraße 30
- Goddert von Oheimb
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Alexandra Weigelt
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Wolfgang Weisser
- Technical University of Munich, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
- Christian Wirth
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Jiayong Zhang
- Key Lab of Wildlife Biotechnology, Conservation and Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University
- Helge Bruelheide
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Nico Eisenhauer
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09448-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Here, Schuldt et al. collate data from two long-term grassland and forest biodiversity experiments to ask how plant diversity facets affect the diversity of higher trophic levels. The results show that positive effects of plant diversity on consumer diversity are mediated by plant structural and functional diversity, and vary across ecosystems and trophic levels.
