RT Journal Article
T1 Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle
A1 Bello, Francesco de
A1 Lavorel, Sandra
A1 Hallett, Lauren
A1 Valencia Gómez, Enrique
A1 Garnier, Eric
A1 Roscher, Christiane
A1 Conti, Luisa
A1 Galland, Thomas
A1 Goberna, Marta
A1 Májeková, Maria
A1 Montesinos-Navarro, Alicia
A1 Pausas, Juli
A1 Verdú, Miguel
A1 E-Vojtkó, Anna
A1 Götzenberger, Lars
A1 Lepš, Jan
AB Under global change, how biological diversity and ecosystem services are maintained in time is a fundamental question. Ecologists have long argued about multiple mechanisms by which local biodiversity might control the temporal stability of ecosystem properties. Accumulating theories and empirical evidence suggest that, together with different population and community parameters, these mechanisms largely operate through differences in functional traits among organisms. We review potential trait-stability mechanisms together with underlying tests and associated metrics. We identify various trait-based components, each accounting for different stability mechanisms, that contribute to buffering, or propagating, the effect of environmental fluctuations on ecosystem functioning. This comprehensive picture, obtained by combining different puzzle pieces of trait-stability effects, will guide future empirical and modeling investigations.
PB Elsevier
SN 0169-5347
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95146
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95146
LA eng
NO De Bello, Francesco, et al. «Functional Trait Effects on Ecosystem Stability: Assembling the Jigsaw Puzzle». Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 36, n.o 9, septiembre de 2021, pp. 822-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.05.001.
NO AcknowledgmentsThis study is the result of an international workshop financed by the Valencian government in Spain (Generalitat Valenciana, reference AORG/2018/) and was supported by Spanish Plan Nacional de I+D+i (project PGC2018-099027-B-I00). E.V. was supported by the 2017 program for attracting and retaining talent of Comunidad de Madrid (no. 2017-T2/ AMB-5406).
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Generalitat Valenciana
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 3 abr 2025