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The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales
Gaëtane Le Provost 
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Noëlle V. Schenk ,
Caterina Penone ,
Jan Thiele,
Catrin Westphal,
Eric Allan ,
Manfred Ayasse,
Nico Blüthgen ,
Runa S. Boeddinghaus,
Andrea Larissa Boesing ,
Ralph Bolliger ,
Verena Busch,
Markus Fischer ,
Martin M. Gossner ,
Norbert Hölzel ,
Kirsten Jung ,
Ellen Kandeler ,
Valentin H. Klaus ,
Till Kleinebecker ,
Sophia Leimer ,
Sven Marhan,
Kathryn Morris ,
Sandra Müller ,
Felix Neff ,
Margot Neyret ,
Yvonne Oelmann ,
David J. Perović ,
Sophie Peter ,
Daniel Prati,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Hugo Saiz,
Deborah Schäfer,
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen ,
Michael Schloter ,
Ingo Schöning ,
Marion Schrumpf ,
Juliane Steckel,
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,
Marco Tschapka,
Juliane Vogt,
Christiane Weiner ,
Wolfgang Weisser ,
Konstans Wells ,
Michael Werner ,
Wolfgang Wilcke ,
Peter Manning
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Noëlle V. Schenk ,
Caterina Penone ,
Jan Thiele,
Catrin Westphal,
Eric Allan ,
Manfred Ayasse,
Nico Blüthgen ,
Runa S. Boeddinghaus,
Andrea Larissa Boesing ,
Ralph Bolliger ,
Verena Busch,
Markus Fischer ,
Martin M. Gossner ,
Norbert Hölzel ,
Kirsten Jung ,
Ellen Kandeler ,
Valentin H. Klaus ,
Till Kleinebecker ,
Sophia Leimer ,
Sven Marhan,
Kathryn Morris ,
Sandra Müller ,
Felix Neff ,
Margot Neyret ,
Yvonne Oelmann ,
David J. Perović ,
Sophie Peter ,
Daniel Prati,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Hugo Saiz,
Deborah Schäfer,
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen ,
Michael Schloter ,
Ingo Schöning ,
Marion Schrumpf ,
Juliane Steckel,
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,
Marco Tschapka,
Juliane Vogt,
Christiane Weiner ,
Wolfgang Weisser ,
Konstans Wells ,
Michael Werner ,
Wolfgang Wilcke ,
Peter Manning
Nature Ecology and Evolution, Volume: 7
Swansea University Author:
Konstans Wells
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DOI (Published version): 10.1038/s41559-022-01918-5
Abstract
The impact of local biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning is well established, but the role of larger-scale biodiversity dynamics in the delivery of ecosystem services remains poorly understood. Here we address this gap using a comprehensive dataset describing the supply of 16 cultural, regulat...
| Published in: | Nature Ecology and Evolution |
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| ISSN: | 2397-334X |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61917 |
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The impact of local biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning is well established, but the role of larger-scale biodiversity dynamics in the delivery of ecosystem services remains poorly understood. Here we address this gap using a comprehensive dataset describing the supply of 16 cultural, regulating and provisioning ecosystem services in 150 European agricultural grassland plots, and detailed multi-scale data on land use and plant diversity. After controlling for land-use and abiotic factors, we show that both plot-level and surrounding plant diversity play an important role in the supply of cultural and aboveground regulating ecosystem services. In contrast, provisioning and belowground regulating ecosystem services are more strongly driven by field-level management and abiotic factors. Structural equation models revealed that surrounding plant diversity promotes ecosystem services both directly, probably by fostering the spill-over of ecosystem service providers from surrounding areas, and indirectly, by maintaining plot-level diversity. By influencing the ecosystem services that local stakeholders prioritized, biodiversity at different scales was also shown to positively influence a wide range of stakeholder groups. These results provide a comprehensive picture of which ecosystem services rely most strongly on biodiversity, and the respective scales of biodiversity that drive these services. This key information is required for the upscaling of biodiversity–ecosystem service relationships, and the informed management of biodiversity within agricultural landscapes. |
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The work was partly funded by the DFG Priority Program 1374 ‘Biodiversity-Exploratories’ and by the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. C.W. is grateful for being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Project number 493487387). E.K. is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG, KA1590/8-5). H.S. is supported by a María Zambrano fellowship funded by the Ministry of Universities and European Union-Next Generation plan. M.M.G. acknowledges support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 310030E-173542). S.M. is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG, MA4436/1-5). P.M. acknowledges support from the German Research Foundation (DFG; MA 7144/1-1). |