New Publication: Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunction­ality via multitrophic diversity

A latest international research published on August 29, 2024 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution has shown that, in both forest and grassland ecosystems, the association between multitrophic diversity and multifunctionality was stronger than the relationship between the diversity of individual trophic groups and multifunctionality. The researchers show that plant diversity increases multifunctionality through elevated multitrophic diversity.

Publication:

Yi Li, Andreas Schuldt, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Yuanyuan Huang, Georg Albert, Cynthia Albracht, Angelos Amyntas, Michael Bonkowski, Helge Bruelheide, Maximilian Bröcher, Douglas Chesters, Jun Chen, Yannan Chen, Jing-Ting Chen, Marcel Ciobanu, Xianglu Deng, Felix Fornoff, Gerd Gleixner, Liangdong Guo, Peng-Fei Guo, Anna Heintz-Buschart, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Markus Lange, Shan Li, Qi Li, Yingbin Li, Arong Luo, Sebastian T. Meyer, Goddert von Oheimb, Gemma Rutten, Thomas Scholten, Marcel D. Solbach, Michael Staab, Ming-Qiang Wang, Naili Zhang, Chao-Dong Zhu, Bernhard Schmid, Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Liu. 2024. Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Online. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02517-2.