RT Journal Article
T1 Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale
A1 Valencia Gómez, Enrique
A1 Bello, Francesco de
A1 Galland, Thomas
A1 Adler, Peter
A1 Lepš, Jan
A1 E-Vojtkó, Anna
A1 van Klink, Roel
A1 Carmona, Carlos
A1 Danihelka, Jiří
A1 Dengler, Jürgen
A1 Eldridge, David J.
A1 Estiarte, Marc
A1 García-González, Ricardo
A1 Garnier, Eric
A1 Gómez‐García, Daniel
A1 Harrison, Susan
A1 Herben, Tomáš
A1 Ibáñez, Ricardo
A1 Jentsch, Anke
A1 Juergens, Norbert
A1 Kertész, Miklós
A1 Klumpp, Katja
A1 Louault, Frédérique
A1 Marrs, Rob
A1 Ogaya, Romà
A1 Ónodi, Gábor
A1 Pakeman, Robin
A1 Pardo, Iker
A1 Pärtel, Meelis
A1 Begoña Peco, 
A1 Peñuelas, Josep
A1 Pywell, Richard
A1 Rueda, Marta
A1 Schmidt, Wolfgang
A1 Schmiedel, Ute
A1 Schuetz, Martin
A1 Skálová, Hana
A1 Šmilauer, Petr
A1 Šmilauerová, Marie
A1 Smit, Christian
A1 Song, MingHua
A1 Stock, Martin
A1 Val, James
A1 Vandvik, Vigdis
A1 Ward, David
A1 Wesche, Karsten
A1 Wiser, Susan
A1 Woodcock, Ben
A1 Young, Truman
A1 Yu, Fei-Hai
A1 Zobel, Martin
A1 Götzenberger, Lars
AB The stability of ecological communities is critical for the stable provisioning of ecosystem services, such as food and forage production, carbon sequestration, and soil fertility. Greater biodiversity is expected to enhance stability across years by decreasing synchrony among species, but the drivers of stability in nature remain poorly resolved. Our analysis of time series from 79 datasets across the world showed that stability was associated more strongly with the degree of synchrony among dominant species than with species richness. The relatively weak influence of species richness is consistent with theory predicting that the effect of richness on stability weakens when synchrony is higher than expected under random fluctuations, which was the case in most communities. Land management, nutrient addition, and climate change treatments had relatively weak and varying effects on stability, modifying how species richness, synchrony, and stability interact. Our results demonstrate the prevalence of biotic drivers on ecosystem stability, with the potential for environmental drivers to alter the intricate relationship among richness, synchrony, and stability.
PB National Academy of Sciences
SN 0027-8424
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94918
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94918
LA eng
NO Valencia, Enrique, et al. «Synchrony Matters More than Species Richness in Plant Community Stability at a Global Scale». Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, n.o 39, septiembre de 2020, pp. 24345-51. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920405117.
NO AcknowledgmentsWe thank multiple collaborators for the data they provided (funding associated with particular study sites is listed in SI Appendix, Supplementary Text S5). We also thank the Lawes Agricultural Trust and Rothamsted Research for data from the Electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA) database. We were supported by US NSF Grants DEB-8114302, DEB-8811884, DEB-9411972, DEB-0080382, DEB-0620652, DEB-1234162, and DEB-0618210; the Nutrient Network (https://nutnet.org/) experiment from NSF Research Coordination Network Grant NSF-DEB-1042132; the New Zealand National Vegetation Survey Databank; and Institute on the Environment Grant DG-0001-13. Data (Dataset 56, SI Appendix, Supplementary Text S4) owned by NERC Database Right/Copyright NERC. Further support was provided by the Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research project, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, and the University of Minnesota. The Rothamsted Long-term Experiments National Capability is supported by UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Grant BBS/E/C/000J0300 and the Lawes Agricultural Trust. This research was funded by Czech Science Foundation Grant GACR16-15012S and Czech Academy of Sciences Grant RVO 67985939. E.V. was funded by 2017 Program for Attracting and Retaining Talent of Comunidad de Madrid Grant 2017-T2/AMB-5406.
NO North American Electric Reliability Corporation
NO U.S. National Science Foundation
NO UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
NO Czech Science Foundation
NO Czech Academy of Sciences
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
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