Land management in forest and grasslands: How much can we intensify?

(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig) Intensive land-use reduces beneficial effects of biodiversity on ecosystem services. This is the main result of a study led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the University of Bern. It assessed the effects of land management on the links between biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services, identified thresholds of ...