{"id":2579,"date":"2020-11-10T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenaexperiment.uni-jena.de\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2020-11-10T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:52:57","slug":"new-publication-from-barnes-et-al-in-science-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/new-publication-from-barnes-et-al-in-science-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Barnes et al. in Science Advances: Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2580\" width=\"315\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-32.png 812w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-32-300x241.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-32-768x617.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">Arthropod herbivores cause substantial economic costs that drive an  increasing need to develop environmentally sustainable approaches to  herbivore control. Increasing plant diversity is expected to limit  herbivory by altering plant-herbivore and predator-herbivore  interactions, but the simultaneous influence of these interactions on  herbivore impacts remains unexplored. We compiled 487 arthropod food  webs in two long-running grassland biodiversity experiments in Europe  and North America to investigate whether and how increasing plant  diversity can reduce the impacts of herbivores on plants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2611\" width=\"315\" height=\"250\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">We show that  plants lose just under half as much energy to arthropod herbivores when  in high-diversity mixtures versus monocultures and reveal that plant  diversity decreases effects of herbivores on plants by simultaneously  benefiting predators and reducing average herbivore food quality. These  findings demonstrate that conserving plant diversity is crucial for  maintaining interactions in food webs that provide natural control of  herbivore pests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4>Media Release:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/en\/news\/news_single_view\/1854.html\">https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/en\/news\/news_single_view\/1854.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A. D. Barnes, C. Scherber, U. Brose, E. T. Borer, A. Ebeling, B. Gauzens, D. P. Giling, J. Hines, F. Isbell, C. Ristok, D. Tilman, W. W. Weisser, N. Eisenhauer (2020). Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory. <em>Science Advances<\/em>, DOI: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.abb6603\" target=\"_blank\">10.1126\/sciadv.abb6603<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthropod herbivores cause substantial economic costs that drive an increasing need to develop environmentally sustainable approaches to herbivore control. Increasing plant diversity is expected to limit herbivory by altering plant-herbivore&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2611,"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\/2579"}],"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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}