Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact
mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels of biological …

Recent reports of local extinctions of arthropod species, and of massive declines in
arthropod biomass, point to land-use intensification as a major driver of decreasing …

Land-use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss. However, understanding how
different components of land use drive biodiversity loss requires the investigation of multiple …

Climate change impacts biodiversity and is driving range shifts of species and populations
across the globe. To understand the effects of climate warming on biota, long-term …

Human land use has caused substantial declines in global species richness. Evidence from
different taxonomic groups and geographic regions suggests that land use does not equally …

The drastic insect decline has received increasing attention in scientific as well as in public
media. Long‐term studies of insect diversity trends are still rare, even though such studies …

A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing
lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural …

Biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments test how species diversity influences
fundamental ecosystem processes. Historically, arthropod driven functions, such as …

Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial
ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of …