Synthesis Project 5: Drivers of biodiversity and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships along climate and land use gradients

综合项目Syn5将侧重于1246(KILI)研究单位的总体目标，沿着气候和土地利用的梯度将生物多样性和生物地球化学生态系统状态和过程联系起来，并在全球环境变化的背景下解决生物多样性对生态系统功能和稳定的重要性。该项目继续并扩大了中央项目Z2的综合工作，以及在For 1246第一阶段和第二阶段期间的SP7工作。它将建立在关于丰度、物种丰富度、群落组成、物种特征、生物相互作用以及生物地球化学生态系统状态和过程的广泛多分类群数据的基础上。拟议的项目分为四个工作包，将按照气候和土地利用的梯度进行评估：(1)系统发育关系和功能特征对物种组合结构的重要性；(2)初级生产力、气候和土地利用对食物链长度的影响；(3)生态、气候和人为驱动因素对当地和区域生物多样性的相对重要性；(4)在气候和土地利用变化的背景下，生物多样性与生态系统多功能性和稳定性之间的关系。合成项目Syn5与1246研究单位的其他合成项目密切相关，并将与之密切合作。

Synthesis project Syn5 will focus on the overarching goals of the research unit FOR 1246 (KiLi) by linking biodiversity and biogeochemical ecosystem states and processes along gradients of climate and land use and by addressing the importance of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning and stability in the context of global environmental change. The project continues and expands the synthesis work of central project Z2 as well as the work of SP7 during the phases one and two of FOR 1246. It will build upon extensive multi-taxa data on abundance, species richness, community composition, species traits, biotic interactions as well as on biogeochemical ecosystem states and processes. The proposed project is subdivided into four workpackages and will evaluate along gradients of climate and land use (1) the importance of phylogenetic relationships and functional traits for the structure of species assemblages, (2) the influence of primary productivity, climate and land use on food-chain length, (3) the relative importance of ecological, climatic and anthropogenic drivers of local and regional biodiversity, and (4) the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality and stability in the context of climate and land use change. The synthesis project Syn5 is closely linked to and will closely collaborate with the other synthesis projects of the research unit FOR 1246.