Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

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Authors

  • Andreas Schuldt
  • Matteo Brezzi
  • François Buscot
  • David Eichenberg
  • Jessica Gutknecht
  • Jin-Sheng He
  • Alexandra-Maria Klein
  • Peter Kühn
  • Xiaojuan Liu
  • Keping Ma
  • Pascal A. Niklaus
  • Katherina A. Pietsch
  • Witoon Purahong
  • Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
  • Bernhard Schmid
  • Thomas Scholten
  • Zhiyao Tang
  • Stefan Trogisch
  • Goddert von Oheimb
  • Christian Wirth
  • Tesfaye Wubet
  • Chao-Dong Zhu
  • Helge Bruelheide
Human-induced biodiversity change impairs ecosystem functions crucial to human well-being. However, the consequences of this change for ecosystem multifunctionality are poorly understood beyond effects of plant species loss, particularly in regions with high biodiversity across trophic levels. Here we adopt a multitrophic perspective to analyze how biodiversity affects multifunctionality in biodiverse subtropical forests. We consider 22 independent measurements of nine ecosystem functions central to energy and nutrient flow across trophic levels. We find that individual functions and multifunctionality are more strongly affected by the diversity of heterotrophs promoting decomposition and nutrient cycling, and by plant functional-trait diversity and composition, than by tree species richness. Moreover, cascading effects of higher trophic-level diversity on functions originating from lower trophic-level processes highlight that multitrophic biodiversity is key to understanding drivers of multifunctionality. A broader perspective on biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships is crucial for sustainable ecosystem management in light of non-random species loss and intensified biotic disturbances under future environmental change.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer2989
ZeitschriftNature Communications
Jahrgang9
Ausgabenummer1
Anzahl der Seiten10
ISSN2041-1723
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.12.2018

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