TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gámez-Virués, Sagrario
A1  - Perović, David J.
A1  - Gossner, Martin M.
A1  - Börschig, Carmen
A1  - Blüthgen, Nico
A1  - de Jong, Heike
A1  - Simons, Nadja K.
A1  - Klein, Alexandra-Maria
A1  - Krauss, Jochen
A1  - Maier, Gwen
A1  - Scherber, Christoph
A1  - Steckel, Juliane
A1  - Rothenwöhrer, Christoph
A1  - Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
A1  - Weiner, Christiane N.
A1  - Weisser, Wolfgang
A1  - Werner, Michael
A1  - Tscharntke, Teja
A1  - Westphal, Catrin
T1  - Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Biodiversity loss can affect the viability of ecosystems by decreasing the ability of communities to respond to environmental change and disturbances. Agricultural intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss and has multiple components operating at different spatial scales: from in-field management intensity to landscape-scale simplification. Here we show that landscape-level effects dominate functional community composition and can even buffer the effects of in-field management intensification on functional homogenization, and that animal communities in real-world managed landscapes show a unified response (across orders and guilds) to both landscape-scale simplification and in-field intensification. Adults and larvae with specialized feeding habits, species with shorter activity periods and relatively small body sizes are selected against in simplified landscapes with intense in-field management. Our results demonstrate that the diversity of land cover types at the landscape scale is critical for maintaining communities, which are functionally diverse, even in landscapes where in-field management intensity is high.
KW  - land-use intensity
KW  - community functional-responses
KW  - body-size
KW  - agricultural intensification
KW  - sustainable intensification
KW  - managed grasslands
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - diversity
KW  - heterogenity
KW  - butterflies
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-141925
VL  - 6
IS  - 8568
ER  -