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Crawford MS, Barry KE, Clark AT, Farrior CE, Hines J, Ladouceur E, Lichstein JW, Maréchaux I, May F, Mori AS, Reineking B, Turnbull LA, Wirth C, Rüger N. The function-dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecol Lett 2021; 24:1762-1775. [PMID: 34157796 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Community composition is a primary determinant of how biodiversity change influences ecosystem functioning and, therefore, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF). We examine the consequences of community composition across six structurally realistic plant community models. We find that a positive correlation between species' functioning in monoculture versus their dominance in mixture with regard to a specific function (the "function-dominance correlation") generates a positive relationship between realised diversity and ecosystem functioning across species richness treatments. However, because realised diversity declines when few species dominate, a positive function-dominance correlation generates a negative relationship between realised diversity and ecosystem functioning within species richness treatments. Removing seed inflow strengthens the link between the function-dominance correlation and BEF relationships across species richness treatments but weakens it within them. These results suggest that changes in species' identities in a local species pool may more strongly affect ecosystem functioning than changes in species richness.
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- Michael S Crawford
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Economics, Institute of Empirical Economic Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Land-Use Management, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany.,Biodiversity Synthesis, Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- AMAP, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, IRD, France.,Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174 (CNRS/IRD/UPS), Toulouse Cedex, France
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Gartenhaus, Berlin, Germany
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- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
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- University of Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM, Grenoble, France
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,University of Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM, Grenoble, France.,Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Economics, Institute of Empirical Economic Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panama
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Madrigal-González J, Calatayud J, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Escudero A, Cayuela L, Rueda M, Ruiz-Benito P, Herrero A, Aponte C, Sagardia R, Plumptre AJ, Dupire S, Espinosa CI, Tutubalina O, Myint M, Pataro L, López-Sáez J, Macía MJ, Abegg M, Zavala MA, Quesada-Román A, Vega-Araya M, Golubeva E, Timokhina Y, Stoffel M. Climate reverses directionality in the richness-abundance relationship across the World's main forest biomes. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5635. [PMID: 33159062 PMCID: PMC7648646 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19460-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
More tree species can increase the carbon storage capacity of forests (here referred to as the more species hypothesis) through increased tree productivity and tree abundance resulting from complementarity, but they can also be the consequence of increased tree abundance through increased available energy (more individuals hypothesis). To test these two contrasting hypotheses, we analyse the most plausible pathways in the richness-abundance relationship and its stability along global climatic gradients. We show that positive effect of species richness on tree abundance only prevails in eight of the twenty-three forest regions considered in this study. In the other forest regions, any benefit from having more species is just as likely (9 regions) or even less likely (6 regions) than the effects of having more individuals. We demonstrate that diversity effects prevail in the most productive environments, and abundance effects become dominant towards the most limiting conditions. These findings can contribute to refining cost-effective mitigation strategies based on fostering carbon storage through increased tree diversity. Specifically, in less productive environments, mitigation measures should promote abundance of locally adapted and stress tolerant tree species instead of increasing species richness.
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- Jaime Madrigal-González
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Integrated Science Lab, Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden.,Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, C.P. 28933, Madrid, Spain
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, 13 rue des Maraîchers, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, C.P. 28933, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, C.P. 28933, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.,Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, C/Profesor García González s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, C.P. 28933, Madrid, Spain.,Forest Ecology and Restoration, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33.4, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33.4, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond, VIC, 3121, Australia.,National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea", 128 Blvd. Eroilor, Voluntari, 077190, Ilfov, Romania
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- Instituto Forestal de Chile, Sucre 2397, Ñuñoa, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Inrae, LESSEM, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- EcoSs_Lab, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto, 110107, Loja, Ecuador
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- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Biología (Botánica), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, calle Darwin 2, Madrid, Spain
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Biología (Botánica), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, calle Darwin 2, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Calle Darwin 2, ES-28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33.4, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.,Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá, Calle Trinidad 1, 28801, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland.,Escuela de Geografía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad de la Investigación, Montes de Oca 2060, San José, Costa Rica
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- Instituto de Investigación y Servicios Forestales (INISEFOR), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 86-3000, Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, 13 rue des Maraîchers, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl Vogt, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland
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Madrigal-González J, Ruiz-Benito P, Ratcliffe S, Calatayud J, Kändler G, Lehtonen A, Dahlgren J, Wirth C, Zavala MA. Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe. Sci Rep 2016; 6:32233. [PMID: 27571971 PMCID: PMC5004187 DOI: 10.1038/srep32233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2016] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Neglecting tree size and stand structure dynamics might bias the interpretation of the diversity-productivity relationship in forests. Here we show evidence that complementarity is contingent on tree size across large-scale climatic gradients in Europe. We compiled growth data of the 14 most dominant tree species in 32,628 permanent plots covering boreal, temperate and Mediterranean forest biomes. Niche complementarity is expected to result in significant growth increments of trees surrounded by a larger proportion of functionally dissimilar neighbours. Functional dissimilarity at the tree level was assessed using four functional types: i.e. broad-leaved deciduous, broad-leaved evergreen, needle-leaved deciduous and needle-leaved evergreen. Using Linear Mixed Models we show that, complementarity effects depend on tree size along an energy availability gradient across Europe. Specifically: (i) complementarity effects at low and intermediate positions of the gradient (coldest-temperate areas) were stronger for small than for large trees; (ii) in contrast, at the upper end of the gradient (warmer regions), complementarity is more widespread in larger than smaller trees, which in turn showed negative growth responses to increased functional dissimilarity. Our findings suggest that the outcome of species mixing on stand productivity might critically depend on individual size distribution structure along gradients of environmental variation.
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- Jaime Madrigal-González
- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, Campus Universitario, 28871, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, Campus Universitario, 28871, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain.,Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences.University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Stirling, United Kingdom
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- Department of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, University Leipzig (ULE, Germany)
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, Campus Universitario, 28871, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain.,Department of Biogeography and Global Change, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid Spain
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- Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt Baden-Württemberg (FVA, Germany)
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU, Sweden)
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- Department of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, University Leipzig (ULE, Germany).,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv, Germany)
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, Campus Universitario, 28871, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
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