APA
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Berkum, P. M.-van, Albracht, C., Bröcher, M., Solbach, M. D., Stein, G., Bonkowski, M., … Unsicker, S. (2026). Plant diversity influences plant volatile emission with varying effects at the species and community levels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Chicago/Turabian
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Berkum, Pamela Medina-van, Cynthia Albracht, M. Bröcher, M. D. Solbach, Gideon Stein, M. Bonkowski, F. Buscot, et al. “Plant Diversity Influences Plant Volatile Emission with Varying Effects at the Species and Community Levels.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2026).
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Berkum, Pamela Medina-van, et al. “Plant Diversity Influences Plant Volatile Emission with Varying Effects at the Species and Community Levels.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026.
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@article{pamela2026a,
title = {Plant diversity influences plant volatile emission with varying effects at the species and community levels},
year = {2026},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
author = {Berkum, Pamela Medina-van and Albracht, Cynthia and Bröcher, M. and Solbach, M. D. and Stein, Gideon and Bonkowski, M. and Buscot, F. and Heintz-Buschart, A. and Ebeling, A. and Eisenhauer, N. and El-Madany, T. and Huang, Yuanyuan and Kuebler, Karl and Meyer, S.T. and Gershenzon, J. and Unsicker, S.}
}
Significance Plant volatiles are key info-chemicals mediating plant–environment interactions, but their role in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships remains unknown. Using an experimental grassland, we studied how plant diversity affects volatile release at both the community level and the species level. We demonstrate that with increasing plant diversity, the amount and diversity of volatiles released by the community increase. While volatile profiles of the focal species Plantago lanceolata did not directly respond to plant diversity, they were indirectly influenced by the surrounding community emissions. Our findings show that plant diversity shapes community-level volatile emissions and, in turn, alters the release of volatiles from individual plants, revealing a route through which biodiversity can affect ecosystem functioning.