Christoph Scherber
@cscherber.bsky.social
Deputy director
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Professor of Biodiversity Monitoring
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Environmental science
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Agriculture
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Global evidence that plant diversity suppresses pests and promotes plant performance and crop production - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A global synthesis of >600 studies finds that across agro-ecosystems, grasslands and forests in temperate and tropical zones, increasing plant diversity has a consistently positive effect on plant ...
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Finally, our new synthesis paper on plant #biodiversity effects on productivity via pest suppression is online! This shows that crop #diversification e.g. through #intercropping can increase yields via indirect multitrophic interactions, helping reduce #pesticides! www.nature.com/articles/s41...