Landscape heterogeneity buffers biodiversity of meta-food-webs under global change through rescue and drainage effects

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Ryser, Remo, Hirt, Myriam R, Haeussler, Johanna, Gravel, Dominique, Brose, Ulrich
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 04.06.2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biomass; Drainage; Eutrophication; Food; Food webs; Habitat fragmentation; Recolonization; Trophic levels

The impacts of habitat fragmentation and eutrophication on biodiversity have been studied in different scientific realms. Metacommunity research has shown that reduction in landscape connectivity may cause biodiversity loss in fragmentated landscapes. Food-web research addressed how eutrophication i...