Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome.
Journal
Nature ecology & evolution
ISSN: 2397-334X
Titre abrégé: Nat Ecol Evol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101698577
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2020
06 2020
Historique:
received:
07
11
2019
accepted:
11
03
2020
pubmed:
15
4
2020
medline:
25
8
2020
entrez:
15
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Biodiversity time series reveal global losses and accelerated redistributions of species, but no net loss in local species richness. To better understand how these patterns are linked, we quantify how individual species trajectories scale up to diversity changes using data from 68 vegetation resurvey studies of seminatural forests in Europe. Herb-layer species with small geographic ranges are being replaced by more widely distributed species, and our results suggest that this is due less to species abundances than to species nitrogen niches. Nitrogen deposition accelerates the extinctions of small-ranged, nitrogen-efficient plants and colonization by broadly distributed, nitrogen-demanding plants (including non-natives). Despite no net change in species richness at the spatial scale of a study site, the losses of small-ranged species reduce biome-scale (gamma) diversity. These results provide one mechanism to explain the directional replacement of small-ranged species within sites and thus explain patterns of biodiversity change across spatial scales.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32284580
doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1176-8
pii: 10.1038/s41559-020-1176-8
doi:
Banques de données
figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.10110713.v1']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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