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An international team of researchers led by Prof. MA Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to have greater arthropod diversity.
An international team of researchers led by Prof. MA Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to have greater arthropod diversity.
The loss of one species of plant from an area may accelerate the loss of other species by changing the local environment.
The Experiment The Jena Experiment is a long-term biodiversity focused research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The large scale project has been running since 2002 and involves over 100 scientists. The research is centred around discovering which mechanisms influence ecosystem functions and make them stable. The project takes place on a 10 hectare site in Jena, Germany – which consists of approximately 600 plots of artificially assembled grasslands. Image Credit: Delta-T Devices Each plot is different, some are monocultures, others are grassland ...