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The world’s grassland systems are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic change. Susceptible to a variety of different stressors, from land-use intensification to climate change, understanding the mechanisms driving the maintenance of these systems’ biodiversity and stability, and how these mechanisms may shift under human-mediated disturbance, is thus critical for successfully navigating the next century. Within this dissertation, I use an individual-based and spatially-explicit model of grassland community assembly (IBC-grass) to examine several processes, thought key to understanding their biodiversity and stability and how it changes under stress. In the first chapter of my thesis, I examine the conditions under which intraspecific trait variation influences the diversity of simulated grassland communities. In the second and third chapters of my thesis, I shift focus towards understanding how belowground herbivores influence the stability of these grassland systems to either a disturbance that results in increased, stochastic, ...
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kumulative Dissertation
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2020
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Crawford, Michael Scott Using individual-based modeling to understand grassland diversity and resilience in the Anthropocene Potsdam, 2020
Language:
English
Keywords:
Grünland
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Ökosystem
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.25932/publishup-47941
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-479414
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1221183605/34
Author information:
Grimm, Volker 1958-
Author information:
Jeltsch, Florian 1962-
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