The dark side of biodiversity

nico eisenhauer

German Center for Integrative Biodiversity research (iDiv), Hall-Jena-Leipzig, Germany

nico.eisenhauer@idiv.de

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Environmental change is altering the composition and functioning of the earth’s ecosystems. My team aims to embrace the complexity of terrestrial ecosystems by considering interactions among organisms above and below the ground as well as within and across trophic levels. We study the global distribution and drivers of (soil) biodiversity, global change effects on biodiversity, and the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity change. We combine global observational studies with experiments and data syntheses. Our main questions are: How does environmental change affect the composition and biodiversity of ecosystems?  How are shifts in community composition and biodiversity related to the functioning and service provisioning of ecosystems? We specifically focus on the “dark side of biodiversity”, given the enormous biodiversity and functional significance of soils.

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