#Animals #BELongDead #2020 – 2023 #2017 – 2020
FuncNet (Contributing project)
FuncNet – Land-use effects on functional trait networks and consequences for ecosystem processes
Species interactions are mediated by species traits and thus a beyond species approach is necessary to study the functional consequences of land-use intensification. Intensification of land use is assumed to act as environmental filter and thus affect the species trait composition of plants and insects and thereby the interaction between them. Which traits or trait syndromes are most responsive to land use and how niche-based and neutral processes affect trait distribution along land-use gradients across taxa and scales is little understood.
In this project a functional trait characterisation of insect species will be combined with plant trait databases and a plant-herbivore interaction data base, to build functional consumer (phytophagous, xylophagous, zoophagous) – plant networks. It will be studied how land-use intensity affects trait-based interaction networks, as well as the consequences of these changes for community-based processes such as herbivory, biomass production and wood decomposition.
This will be studied along a series of gradients of local land-use intensity in grasslands and forests in landscapes of different complexity and connectivity in the Biodiversity Exploratories in order to enhance our mechanistic understanding of the functional consequences of land-use intensification.
Änderungen in den Pflanzengemeinschaften erklären nur teilweise die Reduktion der Herbivorie von Invertebraten durch Landnutzung in Wald und Grünland
Neff F., Prati D., Achury R., Ambarli D., Bolliger R., Brändle M., Freitag M., Hölzel N., Kleinebecker T., Knecht A., Schäfer D., Schall P., Seibold S., Staab M., Weisser W. W., Pellissier L., Gossner M. M. (2023): Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics. Ecological Monographs 93 (2), e1571. doi: 10.1002/ecm.1571
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Gossner M. M., Petermann J. S. (2022): Vertical stratification of insect species developing in water‐filled tree holes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4:816570. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.816570
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Hierarchische Filter auf verschiedenen räumlichen Skalen bestimmen die funktionale Zusammensetzung von Käfergemeinschaften in Totholz
Neff F., Hagge J., Achury R., Ambarlı D., Ammer C., Schall P., Seibold S., Staab M., Weisser W. W., Gossner M. M. (2022): Hierarchical trait filtering at different spatial scales determines beetle assemblages in deadwood. Functional Ecology 36 (12), 2929-2942. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14186
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Insektenherbivorie begünstigt die Etablierung eines invasiven Pflanzenpathogens
Gossner M. M., Beenken L., Arend K., Begerow D., Peršoh D. (2021): Insect herbivory facilitates the establishment of an invasive plant pathogen. ISME Communications 1: 6. doi:10.1038/s43705-021-00004-4
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Änderungen in der Struktur und Robustheit von Pflanzen-Herbivoren Netzwerken entlang von Landnutzungsgradienten im Grünland und im Wald
Neff F., Brändle M., Ambarli D., Ammer C., Bauhus J., Boch, S. Hölzel N., Klaus V. H., Kleinebecker T., Prati D., Schall P., Schäfer D., Schulze E.-D., Seibold S., Simons N. K., Weisser W. W., Pellissier L., Gossner M. M. (2021): Changes in plant-herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests. Science Advances 7, eabf3985. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf3985
Neff F. (2021): Land-use effects on insect herbivores and their interactions with plants: a functional approach. Dissertation, ETH Zürich. doi: 10.3929/ethz-b-000507430
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Skalenübergreifende Effekte von Landnutzung auf die funktionale Zusammensetzungen herbivorer Insektengemeinschaften
Neff F., Blüthgen N., Chisté M. N., Simons N. K., Steckel J., Weisser W. W., Westphal C., Pellissier L., Gossner M. M. (2019): Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities. Landscape Ecology 34 (8): 2001-2015. doi: 10.1007/s10980-019-00872-1
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Public Datasets
Neff, Felix (2022): Plant species-level herbivory rates, plant, herbivore insect, and land-use metrics from the Exploratories, used in "Reductions of invertebrate herbivory due to land use are only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics". Version 13. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25829/BEXIS.31413-13
Neff, Felix (2022): Plant community-level herbivory rates, plant, herbivore insect, and land-use metrics from the Exploratories, used in "Reductions of invertebrate herbivory due to land use are only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics". Version 13. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25829/BEXIS.31412-13
Neff, Felix; Goßner, Martin (2021): Plant and herbivore abundance from grassland and forests EPs along with trait and land use data, used in "Changes in plant–herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests". Version 8. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de/ddm/data/Showdata/30902?version=8
Goßner, Martin; Brändle, Martin; Neff, Felix (2020): Literature-based plant-herbivore interaction database for Exploratory species (vascular plants; Hemiptera: Auchenorryhncha, Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera). Version 2. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de/ddm/data/Showdata/26926?version=2
Goßner, Martin; Prati, Daniel; Neff, Felix (2019): Plant-species specific assessment of invertebrate herbivory on all EPs, 2017/2018. Version 2. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de/ddm/data/Showdata/24806?version=2
Goßner, Martin (2018): Infection Experiment with Pseudodidymella fagi on beech 2017. Version 2. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de/ddm/data/Showdata/23226?version=2
Neff, Felix; Goßner, Martin; Prati, Daniel (2018): Community-level insect herbivory rates assembled from plant-species specific herbivory assessment on all EPs, 2017/2018. Version 4. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de/ddm/data/Showdata/24086?version=4
Non-public datasets
Morphometric Traits of Herbivorous and Saproxylic Beetles (Coleoptera)
Goßner, Martin; Neff, Felix; Hagge, Jonas (2022): Morphometric Traits of Herbivorous and Saproxylic Beetles (Coleoptera). Version 4. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de. Dataset ID= 31155
Morphometric Traits of Herbivorous Insects (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Heteroptera; Orthoptera)
Goßner, Martin; Neff, Felix; Simons, Nadja; Weisser, Wolfgang; Blüthgen, Nico (2018): Morphometric Traits of Herbivorous Insects (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Heteroptera; Orthoptera). Version 4. Biodiversity Exploratories Information System. Dataset. https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de. Dataset ID= 24266
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