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Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands |
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| Author: | Seabloom, Eric W.1; Batzer, Evan2; Chase, Jonathan M.3,4; |
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1Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota. St. Paul, MN, USA 2Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA 3German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena- Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
4Department of Computer Sciences, Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany
5Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research –UFZ, Leipzig, Germany 6Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany 7Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA 8Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 9School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 10Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland 11Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa, USA 12Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL, US 13Centre for Applied Ecology "Prof. Baeta Neves" (CEABN-InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 14Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 15Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK 16Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), UNMDP –CONICET, Mar del Plata, Argentina 17Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany 18Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 19Institute of Biology / Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 20Department of Biology and Environmental Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA 21Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland 22Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 23MPG Ranch, Missoula, MT, USA 24University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada 25IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina 26School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia 27Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia 28Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA 29Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA 30Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Community Ecology, Birmensdorf, Switzerland 31Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL, USA 325IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina 33Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota. St. Paul, MN, |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.5 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022030221469 |
| Language: | English |
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John Wiley & Sons,
2021
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| Publish Date: | 2022-07-09 |
| Description: |
AbstractThe effects of altered nutrient supplies and herbivore density on species diversity vary with spatial scale, because coexistence mechanisms are scale dependent. This scale dependence may alter the shape of the species–area relationship (SAR), which can be described by changes in species richness (S) as a power function of the sample area (A): S = cAz, where c and z are constants. We analysed the effects of experimental manipulations of nutrient supply and herbivore density on species richness across a range of scales (0.01–75 m²) at 30 grasslands in 10 countries. We found that nutrient addition reduced the number of species that could co-occur locally, indicated by the SAR intercepts (log c), but did not affect the SAR slopes (z). As a result, proportional species loss due to nutrient enrichment was largely unchanged across sampling scales, whereas total species loss increased over threefold across our range of sampling scales. see all
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| Series: |
Ecology letters |
| ISSN: | 1461-023X |
| ISSN-E: | 1461-0248 |
| ISSN-L: | 1461-023X |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 10 |
| Pages: | 2100 - 2112 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ele.13838 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1111/ele.13838 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology |
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| Funding: |
This work was generated using data from the Nutrient Network (http://www.nutnet.org) experiment, funded at the site scale by individual researchers. Coordination and data management have been supported by funding to E. Borer and E. Seabloom from the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (NSF-DEB-1042132) and Long Term Ecological Research (NSF-DEB-1234162 & DEB-1831944 to Cedar Creek LTER) programs and the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (DG-0001-13). |
| Dataset Reference: |
Data are publicly available on the Environmental Data Initiative platform. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/404d2e721eb71f15feb65491853d5d42. |
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https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/404d2e721eb71f15feb65491853d5d42 |
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| Copyright information: |
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Seabloom, E.W., Batzer, E., Chase, J.M., Stanley Harpole, W., Adler, P.B., Bagchi, S., et al (2021) Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands. Ecology Letters, 24, 2100– 2112, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13838. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. |