Eirini Daouti, Veronika Neidel, Benjamin Carbonne, Hana Vašková, Michael Traugott, Corinna Wallinger, Riccardo Bommarco, Benjamin Feit, David A Bohan, Pavel Saska, Jiří Skuhrovec, Sasha Vasconcelos, Sandrine Petit, Wopke van der Werf, Mattias Jonsson
Intensified agriculture, a driver of biodiversity loss, can diminish ecosystem functions and their stability. Biodiversity can increase functional redundancy and is expected to stabilize ecosystem functions. Few studies, however, have explored how agricultural intensity affects functional redundancy and its link with ecosystem function stability. Here, within a continental-wide study, we assess how functional redundancy of seed predation is affected by agricultural intensity and landscape simplification. By combining carabid abundances with molecular gut content data, functional redundancy of seed predation was quantified for 65 weed genera across 60 fields in four European countries...
April 2024: Ecology Letters