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Authors list: Allan, E; Manning, P; Alt, F; Binkenstein, J; Blaser, S; Blüthgen, N; Böhm, S; Grassein, F; Hölzel, N; Klaus, V; Kleinebecker, T; Morris, E; Oelmann, Y; Prati, D; Renner, S; Rillig, M; Schaefer, M; Schloter, M; Schmitt, B; Schöning, I; Schrumpf, M; Solly, E; Sorkau, E; Steckel, J; Steffen-Dewenter, I; Stempfhuber, B; Tschapka, M; Weiner, C; Weisser, W; Werner, M; Westphal, C; Wilcke, W; Fischer, M
Publication year: 2015
Pages: 834-843
Journal: Ecology Letters
Volume number: 18
Issue number: 8
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12469
Publisher: Wiley
Global change, especially land-use intensification, affects human well-being by impacting the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (multifunctionality). However, whether biodiversity loss is a major component of global change effects on multifunctionality in real-world ecosystems, as in experimental ones, remains unclear. Therefore, we assessed biodiversity, functional composition and 14 ecosystem services on 150 agricultural grasslands differing in land-use intensity. We also introduce five multifunctionality measures in which ecosystem services were weighted according to realistic land-use objectives. We found that indirect land-use effects, i.e. those mediated by biodiversity loss and by changes to functional composition, were as strong as direct effects on average. Their strength varied with land-use objectives and regional context. Biodiversity loss explained indirect effects in a region of intermediate productivity and was most damaging when land-use objectives favoured supporting and cultural services. In contrast, functional composition shifts, towards fast-growing plant species, strongly increased provisioning services in more inherently unproductive grasslands.
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Harvard Citation style: Allan, E., Manning, P., Alt, F., Binkenstein, J., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., et al. (2015) Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition, Ecology Letters, 18(8), pp. 834-843. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12469
APA Citation style: Allan, E., Manning, P., Alt, F., Binkenstein, J., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Böhm, S., Grassein, F., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V., Kleinebecker, T., Morris, E., Oelmann, Y., Prati, D., Renner, S., Rillig, M., Schaefer, M., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., ...Fischer, M. (2015). Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition. Ecology Letters. 18(8), 834-843. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12469
