Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1694, 2016, Pages

  Soliveres, Santiago ^a   Manning, Peter ^a,b   Prati, Daniel ^a   Gossner, Martin M ^c,d   Alt, Fabian ^e   Arndt, Hartmut ^f   Baumgartner, Vanessa ^g   Binkenstein, Julia ^h   Birkhofer, Klaus ⁱ   Blaser, Stefan ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^j   Boch, Steffen ^a   Böhm, Stefan ^k   Börschig, Carmen ^l   Buscot, Francois ^m,n   Diekötter, Tim ^o   Heinze, Johannes ^p   Hölzel, Norbert ^q   Jung, Kirsten ^k   Klaus, Valentin H ^q   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^h   Kleinebecker, Till ^q   Klemmer, Sandra ^m   Krauss, Jochen ^r   Lange, Markus ^c,s   Morris, E Kathryn ^t,u   Müller, Jörg ^p   Oelmann, Yvonne ^e   Overmann, Jörg ^g   Pašalić, Esther ^c   Renner, Swen C ^v,w   Rillig, Matthias C ^u,x   Schaefer, H Martin ^h   Schloter, Michael ^y   Schmitt, Barbara ^a   Schöning, Ingo ^s   Schrumpf, Marion ^s   Sikorski, Johannes ^g   Socher, Stephanie A ^z   Solly, Emily F ^s   Sonnemann, Ilja ^u   Sorkau, Elisabeth ^e   Steckel, Juliane ^r   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^r   Stempfhuber, Barbara ^y   Tschapka, Marco ^k   Türke, Manfred ^n,aa   Venter, Paul ^f   Weiner, Christiane N ^r   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^c,d   Werner, Michael ^r   Westphal, Catrin ^l   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^ab   Wolters, Volkmar ^ac   Wubet, Tesfaye ⁿ   Wurst, Susanne ^u   Fischer, Markus ^a,b   Allan, Eric ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^m HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

ⁿ GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^s MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^t XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^v SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

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

^y INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^z UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^ab KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^ac JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Common species; Ecosystem function; Identity hypothesis; Land use; Multitrophic

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LAND USE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; POPULATION DENSITY;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84964474662     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0269     Document Type: Article

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