Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

• Published in: Basic and applied ecology Vol. 11; no. 6; pp. 473 - 485
• Main Authors: Fischer, Markus, Bossdorf, Oliver, Gockel, Sonja, Hänsel, Falk, Hemp, Andreas, Hessenmöller, Dominik, Korte, Gunnar, Nieschulze, Jens, Pfeiffer, Simone, Prati, Daniel, Renner, Swen, Schöning, Ingo, Schumacher, Uta, Wells, Konstans, Buscot, François, Kalko, Elisabeth K.V., Linsenmair, Karl Eduard, Schulze, Ernst-Detlef, Weisser, Wolfgang W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier GmbH 01.01.2010
• Subjects: Biotic interactions; Ecological monitoring; Ecosystem services; Forest management; Grassland; Land use; Landscape; Species richness; Germany; Grassland; Landscape; Ecological monitoring; Forest management; Ecosystem services; Biotic interactions; Land use; Species richness

Functional biodiversity research explores drivers and functional consequences of biodiversity changes. Land use change is a major driver of changes of biodiversity and of biogeochemical and biological ecosystem processes and services. However, land use effects on genetic and species diversity are we...