The researchers set out to study both biodiversity -- plants, insects, vertebrates -- and changes in how food webs function -- biomass ... predation and relatively high numbers of plant feeding ...

Importantly, results from simple low-diversity food web models often stand in contrast to results from complex high-diversity food web models on the role that diversity and structure play in ...

In most terrestrial ecosystems with high standing biomass and relatively ... the associations of species richness/diversity with food web complexity, ecosystem productivity, and stability.

Producing food whilst preserving biodiversity Agricultural ecologists call for joined-up thinking for nature conservation Date: May 14, 2019 Source: University of Göttingen Summary: In nature ...

He is affiliated with the High ... biodiversity loss. The pursuit of global food productivity has also led to the homogenization of landscapes, replacing once-complex food webs with greatly ...

New research provides the latest evidence that climate change is having an impact on food webs in high-latitude ecosystems ... such as those at the museum and in UT’s Biodiversity Center, are to ...

The authors propose developing risk maps before the spatial planning of offshore wind farms to avoid harmful impacts on biodiversity ... the structure of marine food webs—from phytoplankton ...

we built a massive virtual Earth of interconnected food-web networks. We then applied scenarios of projected climate change and land-use degradation such as deforestation, to predict biodiversity ...

The researchers set out to study both biodiversity—plants, insects, vertebrates—and changes in how food webs function—biomass ... predation and relatively high numbers of plant feeding ...