Intensification of land use leads to the same species everywhere
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 15:21
in Biology & Nature
In places where humans use grasslands more intensively, it is not only the species diversity that decreases -- the landscape also becomes more monotonous, and ultimately only the same species remain everywhere. This results in nature no longer being able to provide its 'services', which range from soil formation for food production to pest control. 300 scientists have now studied the consequences of land-use intensification across different species groups at the landscape level for the very first time.