Multi-species crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment
Jana Brandmeier1,2, Hannah Reininghaus2 and Christoph Scherber1,2*
1University of Münster, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Heisenbergstraße 2, 48149 Münster, Germany
2Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science, Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany
*Corresponding author. E-Mail: C.Scherber@leibniz-lib.de
Author contributions : JB collected and analyzed data and wrote the manuscript. CS, JB and HR conceived and planned the experiments and contributed to data analysis. All authors contributed to revisions and the final version of the manuscript.
Data statement : All data and corresponding software code will be made publicly available on Zenodo upon acceptance of this manuscript.
Number of words : 149 (abstract), 705 (main), results (457), 846 (discussion)
Number of figures/tables : 5 figures, supplementary tables and figures: 15