Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs

  • Bjorn J. M. Robroek,
  • Vincent E. J. Jassey,
  • Richard J. Payne,
  • Magalí Martí,
  • Luca Bragazza,
  • Albert Bleeker,
  • Alexandre Buttler,
  • Simon J. M. Caporn,
  • Nancy B. Dise,
  • Jens Kattge,
  • Katarzyna Zając,
  • Bo H. Svensson,
  • Jasper van Ruijven,
  • Jos T. A. Verhoeven

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01350-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Peatland plant communities are expected to be affected by environmental change, though how assemblages respond is not fully understood. Here, Robroek et al. show that peatland species occur in two distinct clusters, and functional identity and redundancy was maintained under taxonomic turnover.