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Consumers control carbon

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A survey of plant and animal sightings, feeding interactions and carbon cycling across 4.8 million hectares provides evidence for the role of multitrophic biodiversity and interactions in large-scale biogeochemical dynamics in the Amazon.

The function and service provisioning of ecosystems in the context of anthropogenic environmental and biodiversity change is in the spotlight of current ecological research. The past three decades of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research have provided compelling evidence for the significant positive role of biodiversity in the function of many ecosystems1,2. Despite broad consensus of this relationship in experimental systems, the underlying ecological mechanisms and the transferability to larger spatial scales of natural ecosystems have not been well understood1. One promising approach to address these gaps is the exploration of biotic interactions across trophic levels that link complex communities with multiple ecosystem functions2,3.

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Fig. 1: Multitrophic interactions determine carbon cycling in the Amazon.

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  1. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

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  2. Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

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