{"id":4151,"date":"2023-02-16T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:53:54","slug":"new-publication-from-lange-et-al-in-scientific-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2023\/02\/16\/new-publication-from-lange-et-al-in-scientific-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Lange et al. in Scientific Reports: Restoration of insect communities after land use change is shaped by plant diversity: a case study on carabid beetles (Carabidae)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">There is no doubt about the insect decline currently taking place in  ecosystems with large anthropogenic impacts. Thus, there is a need for  practices that avoid insect decline and or help to recover insect  communities that have already suffered. Plant diversity has been shown  to be positively related to insect abundance and diversity and to  ecosystem functions provided by insects. However, it remains open if  increased plant diversity can help to recover decreased populations.  Here, we tested over one decade the effects of plant diversity on the  carabid community in a large grassland biodiversity experiment and how  plant diversity fostered the establishment of a natural grassland  community&nbsp;after&nbsp;conversion of&nbsp;an&nbsp;arable field. There was a dramatic  decline in carabid abundance from 2003, the first year after  establishing the diversity experiment, to 2005. However, subsequently,  the abundance increased constantly. One year after the land use change  most individuals and species were those commonly found in agricultural  fields. In subsequent years the community was dominated by grassland  species. While plant diversity did not affect the abundance and richness  of the carabid community, the turnover to a more native grassland  community was accelerated by plant diversity in the first years after  the land use change. In contrast, in later years plant diversity  stabilized the community assemblage. Our study shows that high plant  diversity can contribute to a faster transition of insect populations  towards naturally occurring community assemblages and at later stages to  more stabilized assemblages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"892\" height=\"473\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-201.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4152\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-201.png 892w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-201-300x159.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-201-768x407.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Reference:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lange, M., Ebeling, A., Voigt, W. <em>et al.<\/em> Restoration of insect communities after land use change is shaped by plant diversity: a case study on carabid beetles (<em>Carabidae<\/em>). <em>Sci Rep <\/em><strong>13<\/strong>, 2140 (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-023-28628-7\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-023-28628-7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt about the insect decline currently taking place in ecosystems with large anthropogenic impacts. Thus, there is a need for practices that avoid insect decline and or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4153,"comment_status":"closed","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\/4151"}],"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=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}