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Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways |
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| Author: | Chen, Qingqing1; Wang, Shaopeng1; Seabloom, Eric W.2; |
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1Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China 2Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA 3Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
4School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
5Department of Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 6Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong liverpool University, Suzhou, China 7Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia 8Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, UK 9Centre for Applied Ecology “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN-InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 10Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia 11German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 12Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany 13Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 14Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland 15Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK 16Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 17Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 18Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), FCEyN, UNMdP-CONICET, Mar del Plata, Argentina 19Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 18.3 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022100561183 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
John Wiley & Sons,
2022
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| Publish Date: | 2023-01-18 |
| Description: |
AbstractNutrients and herbivores are well-known drivers of grassland diversity and stability in local communities. However, whether they interact to impact the stability of aboveground biomass and whether these effects depend on spatial scales remain unknown. It is also unclear whether nutrients and herbivores impact stability via different facets of plant diversity including species richness, evenness, and changes in community composition through time and space. We used a replicated experiment adding nutrients and excluding herbivores for 5 years in 34 global grasslands to explore these questions. We found that both nutrient addition and herbivore exclusion alone reduced stability at the larger spatial scale (aggregated local communities; gamma stability), but through different pathways. Nutrient addition reduced gamma stability primarily by increasing changes in local community composition over time, which was mainly driven by species replacement. Herbivore exclusion reduced gamma stability primarily by decreasing asynchronous dynamics among local communities (spatial asynchrony). Their interaction weakly increased gamma stability by increasing spatial asynchrony. Our findings indicate that disentangling the processes operating at different spatial scales may improve conservation and management aiming at maintaining the ability of ecosystems to reliably provide functions and services for humanity. see all
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| Series: |
Global change biology |
| ISSN: | 1354-1013 |
| ISSN-E: | 1365-2486 |
| ISSN-L: | 1354-1013 |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Pages: | 2678 - 2688 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/gcb.16086 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1111/gcb.16086 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
1172 Environmental sciences 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology |
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| Funding: |
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31988102, 32122053). This work was generated using data from the NutNet (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 and NSF-DEB-1831944 to Cedar Creek LTER) programs, and the Institute on the Environment (DG-0001-13). We also thank the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute for hosting project data and the Institute on the Environment for hosting Network meetings. Nitrogen fertilizer was donated to the NutNet by Crop Production Services, Loveland, CO. We thank Maowei Liang for helpful discussion and two anonymous reviewers and the editors for their constructive comments and suggestions to improve our manuscript. |
| Copyright information: |
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chen, Q., Wang, S., Seabloom, E. W., MacDougall, A. S., Borer, E. T., Bakker, J. D., Donohue, I., Knops, J. M. H., Morgan, J. W., Carroll, O., Crawley, M., Bugalho, M. N., Power, S. A., Eskelinen, A., Virtanen, R., Risch, A. C., Schütz, M., Stevens, C., Caldeira, M. C., … Hautier, Y. (2022). Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways. Global Change Biology, 28, 2678– 2688., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16086. 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. |