Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment
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In: Nature Communications, Vol. 13, No. 1, 7752, 14.12.2022.
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T1 - Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment
AU - Wagg, Cameron
AU - Roscher, Christiane
AU - Weigelt, Alexandra
AU - Vogel, Anja
AU - Ebeling, Anne
AU - de Luca, Enrica
AU - Roeder, Anna
AU - Kleinspehn, Clemens
AU - Temperton, Vicky M.
AU - Meyer, Sebastian T.
AU - Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael
AU - Buchmann, Nina
AU - Fischer, Markus
AU - Weisser, Wolfgang W.
AU - Eisenhauer, Nico
AU - Schmid, Bernhard
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12/14
Y1 - 2022/12/14
N2 - Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the long-term lacks experimental evidence. We report temporal effects of species richness on community productivity, stability, species asynchrony, and complementarity, and how the relationships among them change over 17 years in a grassland biodiversity experiment. Productivity declined more rapidly in less diverse communities resulting in temporally strengthening positive effects of richness on productivity, complementarity, and stability. In later years asynchrony played a more important role in increasing community stability as the negative effect of richness on population stability diminished. Only during later years did species complementarity relate to species asynchrony. These results show that species complementarity and asynchrony can take more than a decade to develop strong stabilizing effects on ecosystem functioning in diverse plant communities. Thus, the mechanisms stabilizing ecosystem functioning change with community age.
AB - Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the long-term lacks experimental evidence. We report temporal effects of species richness on community productivity, stability, species asynchrony, and complementarity, and how the relationships among them change over 17 years in a grassland biodiversity experiment. Productivity declined more rapidly in less diverse communities resulting in temporally strengthening positive effects of richness on productivity, complementarity, and stability. In later years asynchrony played a more important role in increasing community stability as the negative effect of richness on population stability diminished. Only during later years did species complementarity relate to species asynchrony. These results show that species complementarity and asynchrony can take more than a decade to develop strong stabilizing effects on ecosystem functioning in diverse plant communities. Thus, the mechanisms stabilizing ecosystem functioning change with community age.
KW - Biology
KW - Ecosystems Research
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/26275985-ea28-3e74-8443-9d87d22c0f1f/
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-022-35189-2
DO - 10.1038/s41467-022-35189-2
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 36517483
AN - SCOPUS:85144331810
VL - 13
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 7752
ER -