Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

Nature

Volumn 536, Issue 7617, 2016, Pages 456-459

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

^f SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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

^j UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^k LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

ⁿ HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

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

^p UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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

^s UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^t UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^v MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^w XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^y INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^z UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^aa SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^ab SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^ad KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^ae JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRASSLAND; INSECT; LAND USE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DECOMPOSER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORE; INSECT; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; FOOD CHAIN; GERMANY; HERBIVORY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FOOD CHAIN; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; INSECTS; MICROBIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 84984992159     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature19092     Document Type: Article

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