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Allan, E.* ; Manning, P.* ; Alt, F.* ; Binkenstein, J.* ; Blaser, S.* ; Blüthgen, N.* ; Böhm, S.* ; Grassein, F.* ; Hölzel, N.* ; Klaus, V.H.* ; Kleinebecker, T.* ; Morris, E.K.* ; Oelmann, Y.* ; Prati, D.* ; Renner, S.C.* ; Rillig, M.C.* ; 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.N.* ; Weisser, W.W.* ; Werner, M.* ; Westphal, C.* ; Wilcke, W.* ; Fischer, M.*

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

Ecol. Lett. 18, 834-843 (2015)
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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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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Biodiversity-ecosystem Functioning ; Ecosystem Services ; Global Change ; Land Use ; Multifunctionality; Plant-species Richness; Grassland Communities; Use Intensity; Services; Diversity; Productivity; Management; Fertilization; Tradeoffs; Landscape
Language english
Publication Year 2015
HGF-reported in Year 2015
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1461-023X
e-ISSN 1461-0248
Journal Ecology Letters
Quellenangaben Volume: 18, Issue: 8, Pages: 834-843 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Blackwell
Publishing Place Oxford
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis (COMI)
POF-Topic(s) 30202 - Environmental Health
Research field(s) Environmental Sciences
PSP Element(s) G-504700-001
PubMed ID 26096863
DOI 10.1111/ele.12469
WOS ID WOS:000357958900011
Scopus ID 84946410066
Scopus ID 84932119224
Erfassungsdatum 2015-06-24
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