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Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning
24 affiliations
- 1Te Aka Mātuatua - School of Science, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. [email protected]
- 2German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- 3Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
- 4Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
- 5Department River Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
- 6USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, USA
- 7Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Unitat d'Ecologia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 8Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- 9CSIRO Environment, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
- 10Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
- 11Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT, USA
- 12Department of Global Change Ecology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- 13A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- 14Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 15Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki, Hanko, Finland
- 16Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- 17Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Verbania, Italy
- 18School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
- 19Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bonn, Germany
- 20Centre for Pollution Research and Policy, Brunel University of London, Uxbridge, UK
- 21Environmental Sciences Department, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
- 22Ecosystems and Global Change Group,School of the Environment, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- 23CCMAR (CCMAR/CIMAR LA) - Centre of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- 24MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET-Aquatic Research Network, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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BibTeX
@article{barnes2026food,
title = {{Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning}},
author = {Andrew D. Barnes and Ulrich Brose and Nico Eisenhauer and Emilio Berti and Mario Brauns and Susan L. Eggert and David García‐Callejas and Darren P. Giling and Robert O. Hall and Jes Hines and Malte Jochum and Daniil I. Korobushkin and Susanne Kortsch and Pavel Kratina and Marina Manca and Jordi‐René Mor and Marie C. Nordström and Eoin J. O’Gorman and David Ott and Daniel M. Perkins and Benjamin Rosenbaum and Ruslan A. Saifutdinov and Victor S. Saito and Andrew J. Tanentzap and Catarina Vinagre and Benoît Gauzens},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
doi = {10.1038/s41586-026-10710-5},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10710-5},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning
AU - Andrew D. Barnes
AU - Ulrich Brose
AU - Nico Eisenhauer
AU - Emilio Berti
AU - Mario Brauns
AU - Susan L. Eggert
AU - David García‐Callejas
AU - Darren P. Giling
AU - Robert O. Hall
AU - Jes Hines
AU - Malte Jochum
AU - Daniil I. Korobushkin
AU - Susanne Kortsch
AU - Pavel Kratina
AU - Marina Manca
AU - Jordi‐René Mor
AU - Marie C. Nordström
AU - Eoin J. O’Gorman
AU - David Ott
AU - Daniel M. Perkins
AU - Benjamin Rosenbaum
AU - Ruslan A. Saifutdinov
AU - Victor S. Saito
AU - Andrew J. Tanentzap
AU - Catarina Vinagre
AU - Benoît Gauzens
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/01
JO - Nature
DO - 10.1038/s41586-026-10710-5
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10710-5
SN - 0028-0836
SN - 1476-4687
ER -