Vascular plant species richness and bioindication predict multi‐taxon species richness

摘要: Plants regulate soils and microclimate, provide substrate for heterotrophic taxa, are easy to observe identify have a stable taxonomy, which strongly justifies the use of plants as bioindicators in monitoring conservation. However, insects fungi make up vast majority species. Surprisingly, it remains untested whether strong predictors total multi-taxon species richness. To answer this question, we collected an extensive data set on richness vascular plants, bryophytes, macrofungi, lichens, plant-galling arthropods, gastropods, spiders, carabid beetles, hoverflies OTU from environmental DNA metabarcoding. Plant per se was moderate predictor other taxa. Taking ecospace approach modelling, addition plant-derived revealed 1) consistently positive effect plant 2) prediction 12-55% variation taxa 48 %