Nature Communications (Mar 2023)
Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass
- Pedro Daleo,
- Juan Alberti,
- Enrique J. Chaneton,
- Oscar Iribarne,
- Pedro M. Tognetti,
- Jonathan D. Bakker,
- Elizabeth T. Borer,
- Martín Bruschetti,
- Andrew S. MacDougall,
- Jesús Pascual,
- Mahesh Sankaran,
- Eric W. Seabloom,
- Shaopeng Wang,
- Sumanta Bagchi,
- Lars A. Brudvig,
- Jane A. Catford,
- Chris R. Dickman,
- Timothy L. Dickson,
- Ian Donohue,
- Nico Eisenhauer,
- Daniel S. Gruner,
- Sylvia Haider,
- Anke Jentsch,
- Johannes M. H. Knops,
- Ylva Lekberg,
- Rebecca L. McCulley,
- Joslin L. Moore,
- Brent Mortensen,
- Timothy Ohlert,
- Meelis Pärtel,
- Pablo L. Peri,
- Sally A. Power,
- Anita C. Risch,
- Camila Rocca,
- Nicholas G. Smith,
- Carly Stevens,
- Riin Tamme,
- G. F. (Ciska) Veen,
- Peter A. Wilfahrt,
- Yann Hautier
Affiliations
- Pedro Daleo
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), UNMDP—CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Juan Alberti
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), UNMDP—CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Enrique J. Chaneton
- IFEVA-Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires—CONICET
- Oscar Iribarne
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), UNMDP—CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Pedro M. Tognetti
- IFEVA-Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires—CONICET
- Jonathan D. Bakker
- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
- Elizabeth T. Borer
- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Martín Bruschetti
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), UNMDP—CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Andrew S. MacDougall
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
- Jesús Pascual
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), UNMDP—CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Mahesh Sankaran
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- Eric W. Seabloom
- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota
- 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
- Sumanta Bagchi
- Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
- Lars A. Brudvig
- Department of Plant Biology and Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University
- Jane A. Catford
- Department of Geography, King’s College London, 30 Aldwych
- Chris R. Dickman
- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
- Timothy L. Dickson
- University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Biology
- Ian Donohue
- Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
- Nico Eisenhauer
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Daniel S. Gruner
- Department of Entomology, University of Maryland
- Sylvia Haider
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Anke Jentsch
- Disturbance Ecology, BayCEER, University of Bayreuth
- Johannes M. H. Knops
- Department of Health & Environmental Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- Ylva Lekberg
- MPG Ranch and University of Montana, W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation
- Rebecca L. McCulley
- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky
- Joslin L. Moore
- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne
- Brent Mortensen
- Department of Biology, Benedictine College
- Timothy Ohlert
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University
- Meelis Pärtel
- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu
- Pablo L. Peri
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA) -CONICET. Río Gallegos
- Sally A. Power
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Anita C. Risch
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Community Ecology
- Camila Rocca
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), UNMDP—CONICET, CC 1260 Correo Central
- Nicholas G. Smith
- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University
- Carly Stevens
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- Riin Tamme
- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu
- G. F. (Ciska) Veen
- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
- Peter A. Wilfahrt
- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Yann Hautier
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37395-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
The insurance hypothesis posits that more diverse communities are more stable through time. Here, the authors show that plant biodiversity reduces the spatial variability of productivity in grassland communities, demonstrating that the insurance hypothesis applies also across space.
