A landscape-scale assessment of the relationship between grassland functioning, community diversity, and functional traits.

ABSTRACT: Livestock farmers rely on a high and stable grassland productivity for fodder production to sustain their livelihoods. Future drought events related to climate change, however, threaten grassland functionality in many regions across the globe. The introduction of sustainable grassland management could buffer these negative effects. According to the biodiversity-productivity hypothesis, productivity positively associates with local biodiversity. The biodiversity-insurance hypothesis states that higher biodiversity enhances the temporal stability of productivity. To date, these hypotheses have mostly been tested through experimental studies under restricted environmental conditions, hereby neglecting climatic variations at a landscape-scale. Here, we provide a landscape-scale assessment of t

SUBMITTER: van 't Veen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7520175 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature