Plant chemical traits define functional and phylogenetic axes of plant biodiversity.
Cedar Creek
biodiversity
ecosystem functioning
elementome
functional diversity
functional trait
hypervolume
ionome
phylogenetic signal
productivity
Journal
Ecology letters
ISSN: 1461-0248
Titre abrégé: Ecol Lett
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101121949
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
revised:
27
03
2023
received:
24
02
2023
accepted:
07
05
2023
medline:
27
7
2023
pubmed:
30
6
2023
entrez:
30
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To determine which types of plant traits might better explain ecosystem functioning and plant evolutionary histories, we compiled 42 traits for each of 15 perennial species in a biodiversity experiment. We used every possible combination of three traits to cluster species. Across these 11,480 combinations, clusters generated using tissue %Ca, %N and %K best mapped onto phylogeny. Moreover, for the 15 best combinations of three traits, 82% of traits were chemical, 16% morphological and 2% metabolic. The diversity-dependence of ecosystem productivity was better explained by the %Ca, %N and %K clusters: compared to adding a new species at random, adding a species from an absent cluster/clade better-explained gains in productivity. Species number impacted productivity only when all clusters were present. Our results suggest that tissue elemental chemistry might be more phylogenetically conserved and more strongly related to ecosystem functioning than commonly measured morphological and physiological traits, a possibility that merits exploration.
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1394-1406Subventions
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : DEB-0080382
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : DEB-0620652
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : DEB-1234162
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : DEB-1831944
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© 2023 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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