TY - JOUR

T1 - A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification

AU - Neyret, Margot

AU - Le Provost, Gaëtane

AU - Boesing, Andrea Larissa

AU - Schneider, Florian D.

AU - Baulechner, Dennis

AU - Bergmann, Joana

AU - de Vries, Franciska T.

AU - Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria

AU - Geisen, Stefan

AU - Goldmann, Kezia

AU - Merges, Anna

AU - Saifutdinov, Ruslan A.

AU - Simons, Nadja K.

AU - Tobias, Joseph A.

AU - Zaitsev, Andrey S.

AU - Gossner, Martin M.

AU - Jung, Kirsten

AU - Kandeler, Ellen

AU - Krauss, Jochen

AU - Penone, Caterina

AU - Schloter, Michael

AU - Schulz, Stefanie

AU - Staab, Michael

AU - Wolters, Volkmar

AU - Apostolakis, Antonios

AU - Birkhofer, Klaus

AU - Boch, Steffen

AU - Boeddinghaus, Runa S.

AU - Bolliger, Ralph

AU - Bonkowski, Michael

AU - Buscot, François

AU - Dumack, Kenneth

AU - Fischer, Markus

AU - Gan, Huei Ying

AU - Heinze, Johannes

AU - Hölzel, Norbert

AU - John, Katharina

AU - Klaus, Valentin H.

AU - Kleinebecker, Till

AU - Marhan, Sven

AU - Müller, Jörg

AU - Renner, Swen C.

AU - Rillig, Matthias C.

AU - Schenk, Noëlle V.

AU - Schöning, Ingo

AU - Schrumpf, Marion

AU - Seibold, Sebastian

AU - Socher, Stephanie A.

AU - Solly, Emily F.

AU - Teuscher, Miriam

AU - van Kleunen, Mark

AU - Wubet, Tesfaye

AU - Manning, Peter

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.

PY - 2024/12

Y1 - 2024/12

N2 - Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these strategies at the entire community level is unclear. Here, we combine trait data for >2800 above- and belowground taxa from 14 trophic guilds spanning a disturbance and resource availability gradient in German grasslands. The results indicate that most guilds consistently respond to these drivers through both direct and trophically mediated effects, resulting in a ‘slow-fast’ axis at the level of the entire community. Using 15 indicators of carbon and nutrient fluxes, biomass production and decomposition, we also show that fast trait communities are associated with faster rates of ecosystem functioning. These findings demonstrate that ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ strategies can be manifested at the level of whole communities, opening new avenues of ecosystem-level functional classification.

AB - Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these strategies at the entire community level is unclear. Here, we combine trait data for >2800 above- and belowground taxa from 14 trophic guilds spanning a disturbance and resource availability gradient in German grasslands. The results indicate that most guilds consistently respond to these drivers through both direct and trophically mediated effects, resulting in a ‘slow-fast’ axis at the level of the entire community. Using 15 indicators of carbon and nutrient fluxes, biomass production and decomposition, we also show that fast trait communities are associated with faster rates of ecosystem functioning. These findings demonstrate that ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ strategies can be manifested at the level of whole communities, opening new avenues of ecosystem-level functional classification.

KW - Biology

KW - Ecosystems Research

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184787520&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1038/s41467-024-45113-5

DO - 10.1038/s41467-024-45113-5

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 38341437

AN - SCOPUS:85184787520

VL - 15

JO - Nature Communications

JF - Nature Communications

SN - 2041-1723

IS - 1

M1 - 1251

ER -