{"id":1313,"date":"2020-03-20T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenaexperiment.uni-jena.de\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:39:12","slug":"new-publication-from-buzhdygan-et-al-in-nature-ecology-evolution-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/new-publication-from-buzhdygan-et-al-in-nature-ecology-evolution-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Buzhdygan et al in Nature Ecology &#038; Evolution: Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 id=\"Abs1\">Abstract:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1314\" width=\"329\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-4.png 622w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-4-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">The  continuing loss of global biodiversity has raised questions about the  risk that species extinctions pose for the functioning of natural  ecosystems and the services that they provide for human wellbeing. There  is consensus that, on single trophic levels, biodiversity sustains  functions; however, to understand the full range of biodiversity  effects, a holistic and multitrophic perspective is needed. Here, we  apply methods from ecosystem ecology that quantify the structure and  dynamics of the trophic network using ecosystem energetics to data from a  large grassland biodiversity experiment. We show that higher plant  diversity leads to more energy stored, greater energy flow and higher  community-energy-use efficiency across the entire trophic network. These  effects of biodiversity on energy dynamics were not restricted to only  plants but were also expressed by other trophic groups and, to a similar  degree, in aboveground and belowground parts of the ecosystem, even  though plants are by far the dominating group in the system. The  positive effects of biodiversity on one trophic level were not  counteracted by the negative effects on adjacent levels. Trophic levels  jointly increased the performance of the community, indicating  ecosystem-wide multitrophic complementarity, which is potentially an  important prerequisite for the provisioning of ecosystem services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-very-dark-gray-background-color has-background-dim has-parallax\" style=\"background-image:url(\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-4.png);min-height:160px\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size has-very-light-gray-color justify\"> Buzhdygan, O. Y., S. T. Meyer, W. W. Weisser, N. Eisenhauer, A. Ebeling,  S. R. Borrett, et al. 2020. Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy  use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands. <em>Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/em> <strong>4<\/strong>:393\u2013405. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41559-020-1123-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41559-020-1123-8<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Reference:<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Buzhdygan, O. Y., S. T. Meyer, W. W. Weisser, N. Eisenhauer, A. Ebeling, S. R. Borrett, et al. 2020. Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands. <em>Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/em> <strong>4<\/strong>:393\u2013405. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41559-020-1123-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41559-020-1123-8<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: The continuing loss of global biodiversity has raised questions about the risk that species extinctions pose for the functioning of natural ecosystems and the services that they provide for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}