Spatial scale dependence of plant functional diversity and its response to land-use intensity in grassland farming systems
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Highlights

  • Aligning the spatial scale of vegetation surveys to grassland management is crucial.
  • Substantial increase of functional richness from plot to farm scale.
  • Unimodal trend of functional evenness from plots to farms to regions.
  • Hump-shaped effects of grazing on functional richness at plot and farm scale.
  • Farm-to-regional functional dissimilarity depends on farm-level functional richness.

Citation

Meyer, S. N., Nößler, F., Buzhdygan, O., May, F., Schwarz, L.-M., Niedersen, J. C., Muro, J., Dubovyk, O., Tietjen, B., & Linstädter, A. (2026). Spatial scale dependence of plant functional diversity and its response to land-use intensity in grassland farming systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 410, 110475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2026.110475

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