| Literature DB >> 30150740 |
Dylan Craven1,2,3,4, Nico Eisenhauer5,6, William D Pearse7, Yann Hautier8, Forest Isbell9, Christiane Roscher5,10, Michael Bahn11, Carl Beierkuhnlein12, Gerhard Bönisch13, Nina Buchmann14, Chaeho Byun15, Jane A Catford16, Bruno E L Cerabolini17, J Hans C Cornelissen18, Joseph M Craine19, Enrica De Luca20, Anne Ebeling21, John N Griffin22, Andy Hector23, Jes Hines5,6, Anke Jentsch24, Jens Kattge5,13, Jürgen Kreyling25, Vojtech Lanta26,27, Nathan Lemoine28, Sebastian T Meyer29, Vanessa Minden30,31, Vladimir Onipchenko32, H Wayne Polley33, Peter B Reich34,35, Jasper van Ruijven36, Brandon Schamp37, Melinda D Smith28, Nadejda A Soudzilovskaia38, David Tilman9, Alexandra Weigelt5,6, Brian Wilsey39, Peter Manning40.
Abstract
A substantial body of evidence has demonstrated that biodiversity stabilizes ecosystem functioning over time in grassland ecosystems. However, the relative importance of different facets of biodiversity underlying the diversity-stability relationship remains unclear. Here we use data from 39 grassland biodiversity experiments and structural equation modelling to investigate the roles of species richness, phylogenetic diversity and both the diversity and community-weighted mean of functional traits representing the 'fast-slow' leaf economics spectrum in driving the diversity-stability relationship. We found that high species richness and phylogenetic diversity stabilize biomass production via enhanced asynchrony in the performance of co-occurring species. Contrary to expectations, low phylogenetic diversity enhances ecosystem stability directly, albeit weakly. While the diversity of fast-slow functional traits has a weak effect on ecosystem stability, communities dominated by slow species enhance ecosystem stability by increasing mean biomass production relative to the standard deviation of biomass over time. Our in-depth, integrative assessment of factors influencing the diversity-stability relationship demonstrates a more multicausal relationship than has been previously acknowledged.Mesh：
Year: 2018 PMID： 30150740 DOI： 10.1038/s41559-018-0647-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Ecol Evol ISSN： 2397-334X Impact factor: 15.460