The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales
Gaëtane Le Provost
(1, 2)
,
Noëlle Schenk
(3)
,
Caterina Penone
(4)
,
Jan Thiele
(5)
,
Catrin Westphal
(6)
,
Eric Allan
(3)
,
Manfred Ayasse
(7)
,
Nico Blüthgen
(8)
,
Runa Boeddinghaus
(9)
,
Andrea Larissa Boesing
(1)
,
Ralph Bolliger
(3)
,
Verena Busch
(10)
,
Markus Fischer
(1)
,
Martin Gossner
(11)
,
Norbert Hölzel
(12)
,
Kirsten Jung
(7)
,
Ellen Kandeler
(9)
,
Valentin Klaus
(13)
,
Till Kleinebecker
(10)
,
Sophia Leimer
,
Sven Marhan
,
Kathryn Morris
,
Sandra Müller
,
Felix Neff
,
Margot Neyret
(14)
,
Yvonne Oelmann
(15)
,
David Perović
,
Sophie Peter
,
Daniel Prati
(16)
,
Matthias Rillig
(17)
,
Hugo Saiz
(18, 19)
,
Deborah Schäfer
,
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
,
Michael Schloter
,
Ingo Schöning
,
Marion Schrumpf
,
Juliane Steckel
,
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
,
Marco Tschapka
,
Juliane Vogt
,
Christiane Weiner
,
Wolfgang Weisser
,
Konstans Wells
,
Michael Werner
,
Wolfgang Wilcke
,
Peter Manning
1
SBiK-F -
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
2 UMR SAVE - Santé et agroécologie du vignoble
3 University of Bern
4 Institute of Plant Sciences
5 Thünen Institute of Biodiversity
6 SUB Göttingen - Göttingen State and University Library
7 Universitätsklinikum Ulm - University Hospital of Ulm
8 Darmstadt University of Technology [Darmstadt]
9 University of Hohenheim
10 JLU - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen = Justus Liebig University
11 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
12 WWU - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster
13 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
14 iEES Paris - Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris
15 University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
16 Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden
17 Institut für Biologie
18 ECOBIO - Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes]
19 URJC - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [Madrid]
2 UMR SAVE - Santé et agroécologie du vignoble
3 University of Bern
4 Institute of Plant Sciences
5 Thünen Institute of Biodiversity
6 SUB Göttingen - Göttingen State and University Library
7 Universitätsklinikum Ulm - University Hospital of Ulm
8 Darmstadt University of Technology [Darmstadt]
9 University of Hohenheim
10 JLU - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen = Justus Liebig University
11 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
12 WWU - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster
13 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
14 iEES Paris - Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris
15 University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
16 Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden
17 Institut für Biologie
18 ECOBIO - Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes]
19 URJC - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [Madrid]
Gaëtane Le Provost
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Caterina Penone
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Nico Blüthgen
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Andrea Larissa Boesing
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Markus Fischer
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Martin Gossner
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Norbert Hölzel
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Kirsten Jung
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Ellen Kandeler
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Valentin Klaus
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Till Kleinebecker
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Sophia Leimer
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Sven Marhan
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Kathryn Morris
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Sandra Müller
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Felix Neff
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Margot Neyret
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Yvonne Oelmann
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David Perović
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Sophie Peter
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Deborah Schäfer
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Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
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Michael Schloter
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Ingo Schöning
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Marion Schrumpf
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Juliane Steckel
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Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
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Marco Tschapka
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Juliane Vogt
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Christiane Weiner
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Wolfgang Weisser
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Konstans Wells
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Michael Werner
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Wolfgang Wilcke
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Peter Manning
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Abstract
The impact of local biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning is well established, but the role of larger-scale biodiversity dynamics in the delivery of ecosystem services remains poorly understood. Here we address this gap using a comprehensive dataset describing the supply of 16 cultural, regulating and provisioning ecosystem services in 150 European agricultural grassland plots, and detailed multi-scale data on land use and plant diversity. After controlling for land-use and abiotic factors, we show that both plot-level and surrounding plant diversity play an important role in the supply of cultural and aboveground regulating ecosystem services. In contrast, provisioning and belowground regulating ecosystem services are more strongly driven by field-level management and abiotic factors. Structural equation models revealed that surrounding plant diversity promotes ecosystem services both directly, probably by fostering the spill-over of ecosystem service providers from surrounding areas, and indirectly, by maintaining plot-level diversity. By influencing the ecosystem services that local stakeholders prioritized, biodiversity at different scales was also shown to positively influence a wide range of stakeholder groups. These results provide a comprehensive picture of which ecosystem services rely most strongly on biodiversity, and the respective scales of biodiversity that drive these services. This key information is required for the upscaling of biodiversity–ecosystem service relationships, and the informed management of biodiversity within agricultural landscapes.