Ilja Sonnemann

TL;DR: This work used path analysis to determine whether compound indices detected more relationships between diversities of different organisms and traits than more basic indices, and demonstrated that while common diversity indices may appear interchangeable in simple analyses, when considering complex interactions, the choice of index can profoundly alter the interpretation of results.

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.

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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the relationship between the diversity of rare and common species and multifunctionality indices derived from 14 ecosystem functions on 150 grasslands across a land-use intensity (LUI) gradient.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of local and landscape-level land use on more than 4,000 above- and belowground taxa, spanning 20 trophic groups, was investigated.