Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gámez Virués, Sagrario ^a,f   Perović, David J ^a,f   Gossner, Martin M ^b   Börschig, Carmen ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^c   De Jong, Heike ^a   Simons, Nadja K ^b   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^d   Krauss, Jochen ^e   Maier, Gwen ^a   Scherber, Christoph ^a,g   Steckel, Juliane ^e   Rothenwöhrer, Christoph ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^e   Weiner, Christiane N ^c   Weisser, Wolfgang ^b   Werner, Michael ^c   Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Westphal, Catrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; BIOTIC FACTOR; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FILTER; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HOMOGENEITY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE;

ANIMALIA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARACHNID; BEE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; BEES; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84944937029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9568     Document Type: Article

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