Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment
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T1 - Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment
AU - Schnabel, Florian
AU - Liu, Xiaojuan
AU - Kunz, Matthias
AU - Barry, Kathryn
AU - Bongers, Franca J.
AU - Bruelheide, Helge
AU - Fichtner, Andreas
AU - Härdtle, Werner
AU - Li, Shan
AU - Pfaff, Claas-Thido
AU - Schmid, Bernhard
AU - Schwarz, Julia A.
AU - Tang, Zhiyao
AU - Yang, Bo
AU - Bauhus, Jürgen
AU - von Oheimb, Goddert
AU - Ma, Keping
AU - Wirth, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved.
PY - 2021/12/17
Y1 - 2021/12/17
N2 - Extreme climatic events threaten forests and their climate mitigation potential globally. Understanding the drivers promoting ecosystem stability is therefore considered crucial for mitigating adverse climate change effects on forests. Here, we use structural equation models to explain how tree species richness, asynchronous species dynamics, species-level population stability, and drought-tolerance traits relate to the stability of forest productivity along an experimentally manipulated species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species. Tree species richness improved community stability by increasing asynchrony. That is, at higher species richness, interannual variation in productivity among tree species buffered the community against stress-related productivity declines. This effect was positively related to variation in stomatal control and resistance-acquisition strategies among species, but not to the community-weighted means of these trait syndromes. The identified mechanisms by which tree species richness stabilizes forest productivity emphasize the importance of diverse, mixed-species forests to adapt to climate change.
AB - Extreme climatic events threaten forests and their climate mitigation potential globally. Understanding the drivers promoting ecosystem stability is therefore considered crucial for mitigating adverse climate change effects on forests. Here, we use structural equation models to explain how tree species richness, asynchronous species dynamics, species-level population stability, and drought-tolerance traits relate to the stability of forest productivity along an experimentally manipulated species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species. Tree species richness improved community stability by increasing asynchrony. That is, at higher species richness, interannual variation in productivity among tree species buffered the community against stress-related productivity declines. This effect was positively related to variation in stomatal control and resistance-acquisition strategies among species, but not to the community-weighted means of these trait syndromes. The identified mechanisms by which tree species richness stabilizes forest productivity emphasize the importance of diverse, mixed-species forests to adapt to climate change.
KW - Ecosystems Research
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/214acfb1-a6b6-3dff-a118-beeb010b099a/
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.abk1643
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.abk1643
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 34919425
VL - 7
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
SN - 2375-2548
IS - 51
M1 - eabk1643
ER -