Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways.
Nutrient Network (NutNet)
biodiversity-stability
cross-scale
eutrophication
grazing
Journal
Global change biology
ISSN: 1365-2486
Titre abrégé: Glob Chang Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9888746
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Historique:
received:
20
07
2021
accepted:
01
01
2022
pubmed:
18
1
2022
medline:
14
4
2022
entrez:
17
1
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Nutrients 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.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2678-2688Subventions
Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China: 31988102, 32122053; National Science Foundation
ID : NSF-DEB-1042132
Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China: 31988102, 32122053; National Science Foundation
ID : NSF-DEB-1234162
Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China: 31988102, 32122053; National Science Foundation
ID : NSF-DEB-1831944; Institute on the Environment (DG-0001-13).
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© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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