Bello, Francesco deLavorel, SandraHallett, LaurenValencia Gómez, EnriqueGarnier, EricRoscher, ChristianeConti, LuisaGalland, ThomasGoberna, MartaMájeková, MariaMontesinos-Navarro, AliciaPausas, JuliVerdú, MiguelE-Vojtkó, AnnaGötzenberger, LarsLepš, Jan2024-01-242024-01-242021De 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.2021.05.001.0169-534710.1016/j.tree.2021.05.001https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95146Acknowledgments This 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).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.engjournal article1872-8383https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.05.001open access504Compensatory dynamicsCommunity weighted meanFunctional diversity and redundancyInsurance effectTrait probability densityMedio ambiente natural2502.03 Bioclimatología