Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

  • Yann Hautier,
  • Pengfei Zhang,
  • Michel Loreau,
  • Kevin R. Wilcox,
  • Eric W. Seabloom,
  • Elizabeth T. Borer,
  • Jarrett E. K. Byrnes,
  • Sally E. Koerner,
  • Kimberly J. Komatsu,
  • Jonathan S. Lefcheck,
  • Andy Hector,
  • Peter B. Adler,
  • Juan Alberti,
  • Carlos A. Arnillas,
  • Jonathan D. Bakker,
  • Lars A. Brudvig,
  • Miguel N. Bugalho,
  • Marc Cadotte,
  • Maria C. Caldeira,
  • Oliver Carroll,
  • Mick Crawley,
  • Scott L. Collins,
  • Pedro Daleo,
  • Laura E. Dee,
  • Nico Eisenhauer,
  • Anu Eskelinen,
  • Philip A. Fay,
  • Benjamin Gilbert,
  • Amandine Hansar,
  • Forest Isbell,
  • Johannes M. H. Knops,
  • Andrew S. MacDougall,
  • Rebecca L. McCulley,
  • Joslin L. Moore,
  • John W. Morgan,
  • Akira S. Mori,
  • Pablo L. Peri,
  • Edwin T. Pos,
  • Sally A. Power,
  • Jodi N. Price,
  • Peter B. Reich,
  • Anita C. Risch,
  • Christiane Roscher,
  • Mahesh Sankaran,
  • Martin Schütz,
  • Melinda Smith,
  • Carly Stevens,
  • Pedro M. Tognetti,
  • Risto Virtanen,
  • Glenda M. Wardle,
  • Peter A. Wilfahrt,
  • Shaopeng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19252-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Eutrophication has been shown to weaken diversity-stability relationships in grasslands, but it is unclear whether the effect depends on scale. Analysing a globally distributed network of grassland sites, the authors show a positive role of beta diversity and spatial asynchrony as drivers of stability but find that nitrogen enrichment weakens the diversity-stability relationships at different spatial scales.