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Eric Allan

Researcher at University of Bern

Publications -  96
Citations -  6931

Eric Allan is an academic researcher from University of Bern. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 81 publications receiving 4860 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Allan include Schiller International University & Imperial College London.

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Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

TL;DR: It is shown that plant diversity effects dampen with increasing trophic level and degree of omnivory, and the results suggest that plant Diversity has strong bottom-up effects on multitrophic interaction networks, with particularly strong effects on lower trophIC levels.
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Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

TL;DR: Biodiversity loss explained indirect effects in a region of intermediate productivity and was most damaging when land‐use objectives favoured supporting and cultural services, and functional composition shifts, towards fast‐growing plant species, strongly increased provisioning services in more inherently unproductive grasslands.
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Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

Santiago Soliveres, +63 more
- 25 Aug 2016 - 
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that primary producers, herbivorous insects and microbial decomposers seem to be particularly important drivers of ecosystem functioning, as shown by the strong and frequent positive associations of their richness or abundance with multiple ecosystem services.
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Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality.

TL;DR: In this Perspective, the authors reconcile these views by redefining multifunctionality at two levels that will be relevant for both fundamental and applied researchers.
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Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

Martin M. Gossner, +53 more
- 30 Nov 2016 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that even moderate increases in local land-use intensity (LUI) cause biotic homogenization across microbial, plant and animal groups, both above- and belowground, and that this is largely independent of changes in α-diversity.