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