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TY - JOUR
T1 - Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication
AU - Chen, Qingqing
AU - Wang, Shaopeng
AU - Borer, Elizabeth T.
AU - Bakker, Jonathan D.
AU - Seabloom, Eric W.
AU - Harpole, W. Stanley
AU - Eisenhauer, Nico
AU - Lekberg, Ylva
AU - Buckley, Yvonne M.
AU - Catford, Jane A.
AU - Roscher, Christiane
AU - Donohue, Ian
AU - Power, Sally A.
AU - Daleo, Pedro
AU - Ebeling, Anne
AU - Knops, Johannes M. H.
AU - Martina, Jason P.
AU - Eskelinen, Anu
AU - Morgan, John W.
AU - Risch, Anita C.
AU - Caldeira, Maria C.
AU - Bugalho, Miguel N.
AU - Virtanen, Risto
AU - Barrio, Isabel C.
AU - Niu, Yujie
AU - Jentsch, Anke
AU - Stevens, Carly J.
AU - Gruner, Daniel S.
AU - MacDougall, Andrew S.
AU - Alberti, Juan
AU - Hautier, Yann
PY - 2023/10/11
Y1 - 2023/10/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-023-42081-0
DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-42081-0
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 6375
ER -