Plant diversity alters the representation of motifs in food webs

Plant diversity affects ecosystem function in myriad ways, but the effect on food webs has received less investigation. Here, the authors use high-resolution food web data from a grassland diversity experiment to show that apparent and exploitative competition motifs increase with plant diversity.

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Main Authors: Darren P. Giling, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Sebastian T. Meyer, Christiane Roscher, Michael Rzanny, Winfried Voigt, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Jes Hines
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a8c926f19c1e49c29dcbf6282ee36b0f
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Summary:Plant diversity affects ecosystem function in myriad ways, but the effect on food webs has received less investigation. Here, the authors use high-resolution food web data from a grassland diversity experiment to show that apparent and exploitative competition motifs increase with plant diversity.