Scale-dependent impact of land management on above- and belowground biodiversity.

ABSTRACT: Land management is known to have consequences for biodiversity; however, our synthetic understanding of its effects is limited due to highly variable results across studies, which vary in the focal taxa and spatial grain considered, as well as the response variables reported. Such synthetic knowledge is necessary for management of agroecosystems for high diversity and function.To fill this knowledge gap, we investigated the importance of scale-dependent effects of land management (LM) (pastures vs. meadows), on plant and soil microbe diversity (fungi and bacteria) across 5 study sites in Central Germany. Analyses included diversity partitioning of species richness and related biodiversity components (i.e., density of individuals, species-abundance distribution, and spatial aggregation) at

SUBMITTER: Slabbert EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7520218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature