Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

Allan, Eric; Manning, Peter; Alt, Fabian; Binkenstein, Julia; Blaser, Stefan; Blüthgen, Nico; Böhm, Stefan; Grassein, Fabrice; Hölzel, Norbert; Klaus, Valentin H.; Kleinebecker, Till; Morris, E. Kathryn; Oelmann, Yvonne; Prati, Daniel; Renner, Swen C.; Rillig, Matthias C.; Schaefer, Martin; Schloter, Michael; Schmitt, Barbara; Schöning, Ingo; ... (2015). Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition. Ecology Letters, 18(8), pp. 834-843. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 10.1111/ele.12469

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Global change, especially land-use intensification, affects human well-being by impacting the deliv-ery of multiple ecosystem services (multifunctionality). However, whether biodiversity loss is amajor component of global change effects on multifunctionality in real-world ecosystems, as inexperimental ones, remains unclear. Therefore, we assessed biodiversity, functional compositionand 14 ecosystem services on 150 agricultural grasslands differing in land-use intensity. We alsointroduce five multifunctionality measures in which ecosystem services were weighted according torealistic land-use objectives. We found that indirect land-use effects, i.e. those mediated by biodi-versity loss and by changes to functional composition, were as strong as direct effects on average.Their strength varied with land-use objectives and regional context. Biodiversity loss explainedindirect effects in a region of intermediate productivity and was most damaging when land-useobjectives favoured supporting and cultural services. In contrast, functional composition shifts,towards fast-growing plant species, strongly increased provisioning services in more inherentlyunproductive grasslands.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Ecology
10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Community Ecology

UniBE Contributor:

Allan, Eric, Manning, Peter, Blaser, Stefan, Grassein, Fabrice, Prati, Daniel, Schmitt, Barbara, Wilcke, Wolfgang, Fischer, Markus

Subjects:

900 History > 910 Geography & travel
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany)

ISSN:

1461-023X

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

Language:

English

Submitter:

Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas

Date Deposited:

26 Aug 2015 09:59

Last Modified:

21 Nov 2023 11:58

Publisher DOI:

10.1111/ele.12469

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Biodivers ity–ecosystem functioning; ecosystem services; global change; land use; multifunctionality

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.71169

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/71169

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