Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment.
Emma Ladouceur, Shane A Blowes, Jonathan M Chase, Adam T Clark, Magda Garbowski, Juan Alberti, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Jonathan D Bakker, Isabel C Barrio, Siddharth Bharath, Elizabeth T Borer, Lars A Brudvig, Marc W Cadotte, Qingqing Chen, Scott L Collins, Christopher R Dickman, Ian Donohue, Guozhen Du, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Philip A Fay, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Anke Jentsch, Ingibjörg S Jónsdóttir, Kimberly Komatsu, Andrew MacDougall, Jason P Martina, Joslin L Moore, John W Morgan, Pablo L Peri, Sally A Power, Zhengwei Ren, Anita C Risch, Christiane Roscher, Max A Schuchardt, Eric W Seabloom, Carly J Stevens, G F Ciska Veen, Risto Virtanen, Glenda M Wardle, Peter A Wilfahrt, W Stanley Harpole
Journal: Ecology letters
2022;25(12):2699-2712
PMID: 36278303
Abstract
Global change drivers, such as anthropogenic nutrient inputs, are increasing globally. Nutrient deposition simultaneously alters plant biodiversity, species composition and ecosystem processes like aboveground biomass production. These changes are underpinned by species extinction, colonisation and shifting relative abundance. Here, we use the Price equation to quantify and link the contributions of species that are lost, gained or that persist to change in aboveground biomass in 59 experimental grassland sites. Under ambient (control) conditions, compositional and biomass turnover was high, and losses (i.e. local extinctions) were balanced by gains (i.e. colonisation). Under fertilisation, the decline in species richness resulted from increased species loss and decreases in species gained. Biomass increase under fertilisation resulted mostly from species that persist and to a lesser extent from species gained. Drivers of ecological change can interact relatively independently with diversity, composition and ecosystem processes and functions such as aboveground biomass due to the individual contributions of species lost, gained or persisting.
© 2022 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This article has been contributed to by U.S. Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.
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German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig-Halle-Jena, Leipzig, Germany.; Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.; Department of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.; Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig-Halle-Jena, Leipzig, Germany.; Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig-Halle-Jena, Leipzig, Germany.; Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.; Institute of Biology, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Styria, Austria.; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig-Halle-Jena, Leipzig, Germany.; Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.; Laboratorio de Ecología, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Mar del Plata, Argentina.; Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.; Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.; Atria University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.; Department of Plant Biology and Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science, Peking University, Beijing, China.; Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.; Department of Zoology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.; School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China.; Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig-Halle-Jena, Leipzig, Germany.; Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.; USDA-ARS Grassland Soil and Water Research Lab, Temple, Texas, USA.; Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.; Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.; Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.; Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA.; Dept of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.; Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA.; Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.; Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.; National Institute of Agricultural Research (INTA), Southern Patagonia National University (UNPA) CONICET, Santa Cruz, Argentina.; Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Community Ecology, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.; Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.; Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, the Netherlands.; Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig-Halle-Jena, Leipzig, Germany.; Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.; Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
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