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Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses
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Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating effects of global environmental change. In this review, we use knowledge gained from human‐modified landscapes to suggest eight hypotheses, which we hope will encourage more systematic research on the role of landscape composition and configuration in determining the structure of ecological communities, ecosystem functioning and services. We organize the eight hypotheses under four overarching themes. Section A: ‘landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns' includes (1) the landscape species pool hypothesis—the size of the landscape‐wide species pool moderates local (alpha) biodiversity, and (2) the dominance of beta diversity hypothesis—landscape‐moderated dissimilarity of local communities determines landscape‐wide biodiversity and overrides negative local effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Section B: ‘landscape moderation of population dynamics' includes (3) the cross‐habitat spillover hypothesis—landscape‐moderated spillover of energy, resources and organisms across habitats, including between managed and natural ecosystems, influences landscape‐wide community structure and associated processes and (4) the landscape‐moderated concentration and dilution hypothesis—spatial and temporal changes in landscape composition can cause transient concentration or dilution of populations with functional consequences. Section C: ‘landscape moderation of functional trait selection’ includes (5) the landscape‐moderated functional trait selection hypothesis—landscape moderation of species trait selection shapes the functional role and trajectory of community assembly, and (6) the landscape‐moderated insurance hypothesis—landscape complexity provides spatial and temporal insurance, i.e. high resilience and stability of ecological processes in changing environments. Section D: ‘landscape constraints on conservation management' includes (7) the intermediate landscape‐complexity hypothesis—landscape‐moderated effectiveness of local conservation management is highest in structurally simple, rather than in cleared (i.e. extremely simplified) or in complex landscapes, and (8) the landscape‐moderated biodiversity versus ecosystem service management hypothesis—landscape‐moderated biodiversity conservation to optimize functional diversity and related ecosystem services will not protect endangered species. Shifting our research focus from local to landscape‐moderated effects on biodiversity will be critical to developing solutions for future biodiversity and ecosystem service management.
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- Authors
- Tscharntke, T., Tylianakis, J. M., Rand, T. A., Didham, R. K., Fahrig, L., Batáry, P., Bengtsson, J., Clough, Y., Crist, T. O., Dormann, C. F., Ewers, R. M., Fründ, J., Holt, R. D., Holzschuh, A., Klein, A. M., Kleijn, D., Kremen, C., Landis, D. A., Laurance, W., Lindenmayer, D., Scherber, C., Sodhi, N., Steffan‐Dewenter, I., Thies, C., van der Putten, W. H., & Westphal, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- University of Canterbury (NZ)
- Agricultural Research Service (US)
- Carleton University (CA)
- Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
- Miami University (US)
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (DE)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Florida (US)
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg (DE)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (US)
- James Cook University (AU)
- Australian National University (AU)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Tscharntke, Teja
- ORCID
- Venue
- Biological Reviews
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-01-24
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 661-685
- ISSN
- 0006-3231 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-7931
- 1469-185X
- OpenAlex
- W2167094923
- Cited by
- 2,134
- References
- 343
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- 2026: 154 · 2025: 159 · 2024: 176 · 2023: 165 · 2022: 172 · 2021: 191 · 2020: 173 · 2019: 196 · 2018: 147 · 2017: 157 · 2016: 150 · 2015: 121 · 2014: 95 · 2013: 63 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 7.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
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- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- ResearchOnline - JCU (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
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- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- GRO (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Multilingual Matters (Channel View Publications) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (244090-STEP-CP-FP)
- U.S. Department of Energy
- University of Florida Foundation
- European Commission (244090)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Marsden Fund (UOC‐0802)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Keywords
- landscape composition, landscape configuration, beta diversity, habitat fragmentation, community assembly, insurance hypothesis, ecosystem resilience, intermediate disturbance hypothesis, anthropogenic landscapes, functional diversity
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Environmental Monitoring, Plants, Ecosystem, Biodiversity
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