Faunal communities mediate the effects of plant richness, drought, and invasion on ecosystem multifunctional stability

Zhongwang Jing; Jiang Wang; Yi Bai; Yuan Ge

doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03471-0

Communications Biology (Jun 2022)

Faunal communities mediate the effects of plant richness, drought, and invasion on ecosystem multifunctional stability

Zhongwang Jing,
Jiang Wang,
Yi Bai,
Yuan Ge

Affiliations

Zhongwang Jing: State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jiang Wang: School of Life Sciences, Taizhou University
Yi Bai: School of Life Sciences, Taizhou University
Yuan Ge: State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03471-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A 3 year experiment exposing 270 plants to drought and exotic plant invasion reveals an increase in plant richness while drought and invasion decrease ecosystem multifunctional stability.

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsbio/

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