Insect biodiversity meets ecosystem function: differential effects of habitat and insects on carrion decomposition (pages 364–374)PHILIP S. BARTON and MALDWYN J. EVANS
Version of Record online: 13 MAR 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/een.12395
- Carrion decomposition is critical to ecosystem health and function, and is maintained by different species in different habitat.
- We found that insects led to a doubling in carrion mass loss, and that habitat affected the composition of generalist ants and beetles, but not specialist flies.
- Our study sheds new light on how insect biodiversity maintains decomposition in variable environments.