Nature Communications (Oct 2021)
Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient
- Johannes Uhler,
- Sarah Redlich,
- Jie Zhang,
- Torsten Hothorn,
- Cynthia Tobisch,
- Jörg Ewald,
- Simon Thorn,
- Sebastian Seibold,
- Oliver Mitesser,
- Jérôme Morinière,
- Vedran Bozicevic,
- Caryl S. Benjamin,
- Jana Englmeier,
- Ute Fricke,
- Cristina Ganuza,
- Maria Haensel,
- Rebekka Riebl,
- Sandra Rojas-Botero,
- Thomas Rummler,
- Lars Uphus,
- Stefan Schmidt,
- Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,
- Jörg Müller
Affiliations
- Johannes Uhler
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Sarah Redlich
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Jie Zhang
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Torsten Hothorn
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University Zürich
- Cynthia Tobisch
- Institute of Ecology and Landscape, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
- Jörg Ewald
- Botany & Vegetation Science, Faculty of Forestry, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
- Simon Thorn
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Sebastian Seibold
- Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest management Group, Technical University of Munich
- Oliver Mitesser
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Jérôme Morinière
- AIM – Advanced Identification Methods GmbH
- Vedran Bozicevic
- AIM – Advanced Identification Methods GmbH
- Caryl S. Benjamin
- TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecoclimatology, Technical University of Munich
- Jana Englmeier
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Ute Fricke
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Cristina Ganuza
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Maria Haensel
- Professorship of Ecological Services, Bayreuth Centre of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth
- Rebekka Riebl
- Professorship of Ecological Services, Bayreuth Centre of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth
- Sandra Rojas-Botero
- Chair of Restoration Ecology, Technical University of Munich
- Thomas Rummler
- Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg
- Lars Uphus
- TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecoclimatology, Technical University of Munich
- Stefan Schmidt
- SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen
- Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- Jörg Müller
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26181-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Land use is a key control of insect communities. Here the authors investigate relationships of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient, finding evidence of urbanisation and agriculture as drivers of decline, and of biomass and species richness not being suitable as mutual surrogates.
