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
Affiliations
- Yann Hautier
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
- Pengfei Zhang
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
- Michel Loreau
- Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS
- Kevin R. Wilcox
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming
- Eric W. Seabloom
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of MN
- Elizabeth T. Borer
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of MN
- Jarrett E. K. Byrnes
- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Sally E. Koerner
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Kimberly J. Komatsu
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Jonathan S. Lefcheck
- Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, MarineGEO, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Andy Hector
- University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences
- Peter B. Adler
- Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University
- Juan Alberti
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), FCEyN, UNMdP-CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Carlos A. Arnillas
- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough
- Jonathan D. Bakker
- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
- Lars A. Brudvig
- Department of Plant Biology and Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University
- Miguel N. Bugalho
- Centre for Applied Ecology “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN-InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
- Marc Cadotte
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough
- Maria C. Caldeira
- Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
- Oliver Carroll
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
- Mick Crawley
- Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park
- Scott L. Collins
- University of New Mexico, Department of Biology
- Pedro Daleo
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), FCEyN, UNMdP-CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Laura E. Dee
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1560 30th Street
- Nico Eisenhauer
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Anu Eskelinen
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Philip A. Fay
- USDA-ARS Grassland, Soil, and Water Research Laboratory
- Benjamin Gilbert
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
- Amandine Hansar
- Centre de recherche en écologie expérimentale et prédictive (CEREEP-Ecotron IleDeFrance), Département de biologie, Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, PSL University
- Forest Isbell
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of MN
- Johannes M. H. Knops
- Department of Heatth and Environmental Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong liverpool University
- Andrew S. MacDougall
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
- Rebecca L. McCulley
- University of Kentucky, Plant & Soil Science
- Joslin L. Moore
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus
- John W. Morgan
- Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University
- Akira S. Mori
- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
- Pablo L. Peri
- INTA (National Institute of Agricultural Research)- UNPA (Southern Patagonia National University)-CONICET
- Edwin T. Pos
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
- Sally A. Power
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797
- Jodi N. Price
- Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University
- Peter B. Reich
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797
- Anita C. Risch
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Christiane Roscher
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Mahesh Sankaran
- Ecology & Evolution Group, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR
- Martin Schütz
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Melinda Smith
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University
- Carly Stevens
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- Pedro M. Tognetti
- IFEVA-Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
- Risto Virtanen
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu
- Glenda M. Wardle
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
- Peter A. Wilfahrt
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming
- Shaopeng Wang
- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19252-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
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.
