Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels

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Authors

  • Marta Gaia Sperandii
  • Manuele Bazzichetto
  • Lars Götzenberger
  • Marco Moretti
  • Rafael Achury
  • Nico Blüthgen
  • Markus Fischer
  • Norbert Hölzel
  • Valentin H. Klaus
  • Till Kleinebecker
  • Felix Neff
  • Daniel Prati
  • Ralph Bolliger
  • Sebastian Seibold
  • Nadja K. Simons
  • Michael Staab
  • Wolfgang W. Weisser
  • Francesco de Bello
  • Martin M. Gossner

Understanding how land use affects temporal stability is crucial to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Yet, the mechanistic links between land-use intensity and stability-driving mechanisms remain unclear, with functional traits likely playing a key role. Using 13 years of data from 300 sites in Germany, we tested whether and how trait-based community features mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers (compensatory dynamics, portfolio effect, and dominant species variability), within and across plant and arthropod communities. Trait-based plant features, especially the prevalence of acquisitive strategies along the leaf-economics spectrum, were the main land-use intensity mediators within and across taxonomic and trophic levels, consistently influencing dominant species variability. Functional diversity also mediated land-use intensity effects but played a lesser role. Our analysis discloses trait-based community features as key mediators of land-use effects on stability drivers, emphasizing the need to consider multi-trophic functional interactions to better understand complex ecosystem dynamics.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummereadp6445
ZeitschriftScience Advances
Jahrgang11
Ausgabenummer4
Anzahl der Seiten15
ISSN2375-2548
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 24.01.2025
Extern publiziertJa

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