Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 834-843

  Allan, Eric ^a   Manning, Pete ^a   Alt, Fabian ^b   Binkenstein, Julia ^c   Blaser, Stefan ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^d   Böhm, Stefan ^e   Grassein, Fabrice ^a   Hölzel, Norbert ^f   Klaus, Valentin H ^f   Kleinebecker, Till ^f   Morris, E Kathryn ^g   Oelmann, Yvonne ^b   Prati, Daniel ^a   Renner, Swen C ^c,e,h   Rillig, Matthias C ^i,j   Schaefer, Martin ^c   Schloter, Michael ^k   Schmitt, Barbara ^a   Schöning, Ingo ^l   Schrumpf, Marion ^l   Solly, Emily ^l   Sorkau, Elisabeth ^b   Steckel, Juliane ^m   Steffen Dewenter, Ingolf ^m   Stempfhuber, Barbara ^k   Tschapka, Marco ^e,n   Weiner, Christiane N ^m   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^o,p   Werner, Michael ^m   Westphal, Catrin ^q   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^a,r   Fischer, Markus ^a,s,t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^j BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^k INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

ⁿ SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^o FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^p TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^r KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^s BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^t UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Ecosystem services; Global change; Land use; Multifunctionality

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; LAND USE;

SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; PROCEDURES; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; LINEAR MODELS; SOIL;

EID: 84946410066     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12469     Document Type: Article

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