Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

Medientyp: E-Artikel
Titel: Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity
Beteiligte: Allan, Eric; Bossdorf, Oliver; Dormann, Carsten F.; Prati, Daniel; Gossner, Martin M.; Tscharntke, Teja; Blüthgen, Nico; Bellach, Michaela; Birkhofer, Klaus; Boch, Steffen; Böhm, Stefan; Börschig, Carmen; Chatzinotas, Antonis; Christ, Sabina; Daniel, Rolf; Diekötter, Tim; Fischer, Christiane; Friedl, Thomas; Glaser, Karin; Hallmann, Christine; Hodac, Ladislav; Hölzel, Norbert; Jung, Kirsten; Klein, Alexandra Maria; [...]
Erschienen: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014
Erschienen in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sprache: Englisch
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312213111
ISSN: 0027-8424; 1091-6490
Schlagwörter: Multidisciplinary
Entstehung:
Anmerkungen:
Beschreibung: <jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>Land-use intensification is a major threat to biodiversity. So far, however, studies on biodiversity impacts of land-use intensity (LUI) have been limited to a single or few groups of organisms and have not considered temporal variation in LUI. Therefore, we examined total ecosystem biodiversity in grasslands varying in LUI with a newly developed index called multidiversity, which integrates the species richness of 49 different organism groups ranging from bacteria to birds. Multidiversity declined strongly with increasing LUI, but changing LUI across years increased multidiversity, particularly of rarer species. We conclude that encouraging farmers to change the intensity of their land use over time could be an important strategy to maintain high biodiversity in grasslands.</jats:p>
Zugangsstatus: Freier Zugang

Nur in Feld suchen:

Zuletzt gesuchte Begriffe: