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Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.
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Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

  • Felipe-Lucia MR Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), 04318 Leipzig, Germany; maria.felipe.lucia@gmail.com.
  • Soliveres S Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Penone C Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Fischer M Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Ammer C Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
  • Boch S Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Boeddinghaus RS Department of Soil Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Bonkowski M Institute for Zoology, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany.
  • Buscot F Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Fiore-Donno AM Institute for Zoology, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany.
  • Frank K Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
  • Goldmann K Soil Ecology Department, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
  • Gossner MM Research Unit Forest Health and Biotic Interactions, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
  • Hölzel N Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
  • Jochum M Department of Ecosystem Services, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Kandeler E Department of Soil Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Klaus VH Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Kleinebecker T Institute of Landscape Ecology and Resource Management, University of Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
  • Leimer S Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Manning P Research Group Community Ecology and Macroecology, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Oelmann Y Geoecology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
  • Saiz H Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Schall P Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
  • Schloter M Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
  • Schöning I Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07745 Jena, Germany.
  • Schrumpf M Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07745 Jena, Germany.
  • Solly EF Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07745 Jena, Germany.
  • Stempfhuber B Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
  • Weisser WW School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, 85350 Freising, Germany.
  • Wilcke W Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Wubet T Department of Ecosystem Services, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Allan E Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
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  • 2020-10-23
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  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - 2020
BEF
Biodiversity Exploratories
co-occurrence network
ecosystem function–service relationships
land management intensification
English Land-use intensification can increase provisioning ecosystem services, such as food and timber production, but it also drives changes in ecosystem functioning and biodiversity loss, which may ultimately compromise human wellbeing. To understand how changes in land-use intensity affect the relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services, we built networks from correlations between the species richness of 16 trophic groups, 10 ecosystem functions, and 15 ecosystem services. We evaluated how the properties of these networks varied across land-use intensity gradients for 150 forests and 150 grasslands. Land-use intensity significantly affected network structure in both habitats. Changes in connectance were larger in forests, while changes in modularity and evenness were more evident in grasslands. Our results show that increasing land-use intensity leads to more homogeneous networks with less integration within modules in both habitats, driven by the belowground compartment in grasslands, while forest responses to land management were more complex. Land-use intensity strongly altered hub identity and module composition in both habitats, showing that the positive correlations of provisioning services with biodiversity and ecosystem functions found at low land-use intensity levels, decline at higher intensity levels. Our approach provides a comprehensive view of the relationships between multiple components of biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and ecosystem services and how they respond to land use. This can be used to identify overall changes in the ecosystem, to derive mechanistic hypotheses, and it can be readily applied to further global change drivers.
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  • English
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