Nature Communications (Oct 2023)
Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication
- Qingqing Chen,
- Shaopeng Wang,
- Elizabeth T. Borer,
- Jonathan D. Bakker,
- Eric W. Seabloom,
- W. Stanley Harpole,
- Nico Eisenhauer,
- Ylva Lekberg,
- Yvonne M. Buckley,
- Jane A. Catford,
- Christiane Roscher,
- Ian Donohue,
- Sally A. Power,
- Pedro Daleo,
- Anne Ebeling,
- Johannes M. H. Knops,
- Jason P. Martina,
- Anu Eskelinen,
- John W. Morgan,
- Anita C. Risch,
- Maria C. Caldeira,
- Miguel N. Bugalho,
- Risto Virtanen,
- Isabel C. Barrio,
- Yujie Niu,
- Anke Jentsch,
- Carly J. Stevens,
- Daniel S. Gruner,
- Andrew S. MacDougall,
- Juan Alberti,
- Yann Hautier
Affiliations
- Qingqing Chen
- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Shaopeng Wang
- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Elizabeth T. Borer
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Jonathan D. Bakker
- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
- Eric W. Seabloom
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- W. Stanley Harpole
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Nico Eisenhauer
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Ylva Lekberg
- MPG Ranch and University of Montana
- Yvonne M. Buckley
- School of Natural Sciences, Zoology, Trinity College Dublin
- Jane A. Catford
- Department of Geography, King’s College London
- Christiane Roscher
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Ian Donohue
- School of Natural Sciences, Zoology, Trinity College Dublin
- Sally A. Power
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- Pedro Daleo
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), FCEyN, UNMdP-CONICET
- Anne Ebeling
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University Jena
- Johannes M. H. Knops
- Health & Environmental Sciences, Xián Jiaotong Liverpool University
- Jason P. Martina
- Department of Biology, Texas State University
- Anu Eskelinen
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- John W. Morgan
- Department of Environment and Genetics, La Trobe University
- Anita C. Risch
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Maria C. Caldeira
- Forest Research Centre, Associate Laboratory TERRA, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
- Miguel N. Bugalho
- Centre for Applied Ecology “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN-InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
- Risto Virtanen
- Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu
- Isabel C. Barrio
- Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland
- Yujie Niu
- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth
- Anke Jentsch
- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth
- Carly J. Stevens
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- Daniel S. Gruner
- Department of Entomology, University of Maryland
- Andrew S. MacDougall
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
- Juan Alberti
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), FCEyN, UNMdP-CONICET
- Yann Hautier
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42081-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Abstract Eutrophication usually impacts grassland biodiversity, community composition, and biomass production, but its impact on the stability of these community aspects is unclear. One challenge is that stability has many facets that can be tightly correlated (low dimensionality) or highly disparate (high dimensionality). Using standardized experiments in 55 grassland sites from a globally distributed experiment (NutNet), we quantify the effects of nutrient addition on five facets of stability (temporal invariability, resistance during dry and wet growing seasons, recovery after dry and wet growing seasons), measured on three community aspects (aboveground biomass, community composition, and species richness). Nutrient addition reduces the temporal invariability and resistance of species richness and community composition during dry and wet growing seasons, but does not affect those of biomass. Different stability measures are largely uncorrelated under both ambient and eutrophic conditions, indicating consistently high dimensionality. Harnessing the dimensionality of ecological stability provides insights for predicting grassland responses to global environmental change.
