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SUBMITTER: Ebeling A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4165753 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ebeling Anne A Meyer Sebastian T ST Abbas Maike M Eisenhauer Nico N Hillebrand Helmut H Lange Markus M Scherber Christoph C Vogel Anja A Weigelt Alexandra A Weisser Wolfgang W WW
PloS one 20140916 9
Loss of plant diversity influences essential ecosystem processes as aboveground productivity, and can have cascading effects on the arthropod communities in adjacent trophic levels. However, few studies have examined how those changes in arthropod communities can have additional impacts on ecosystem processes caused by them (e.g. pollination, bioturbation, predation, decomposition, herbivory). Therefore, including arthropod effects in predictions of the impact of plant diversity loss on such eco ...[more]