Artículo
Synchrony Matters More than Species Richness in Plant Community Stability at a Global Scale
Autor/es | Valencia, Enrique
de Bello, Francesco Galland, Thomas Adler, Peter B. Lepš, Jan E-Vojtkó, Anna van Klink, Roel Carmona, Carlos P. Danihelka, Jiří Dengler, Jürgen Rueda García, Marta Götzenberger, Lars |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología |
Fecha de publicación | 2020 |
Fecha de depósito | 2023-03-09 |
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Resumen | The stability of ecological communities is critical for the stable provisioning of ecosystem services, such as food and forage production, carbon sequestration, and soil fertility. Greater biodiversity is expected to enhance ... The stability of ecological communities is critical for the stable provisioning of ecosystem services, such as food and forage production, carbon sequestration, and soil fertility. Greater biodiversity is expected to enhance stability across years by decreasing synchrony among species, but the drivers of stability in nature remain poorly resolved. Our analysis of time series from 79 datasets across the world showed that stability was associated more strongly with the degree of synchrony among dominant species than with species richness. The relatively weak influence of species richness is consistent with theory predicting that the effect of richness on stability weakens when synchrony is higher than expected under random fluctuations, which was the case in most communities. Land management, nutrient addition, and climate change treatments had relatively weak and varying effects on stability, modifying how species richness, synchrony, and stability interact. Our results demonstrate the prevalence of biotic drivers on ecosystem stability, with the potential for environmental drivers to alter the intricate relationship among richness, synchrony, and stability. |
Agencias financiadoras | National Science Foundation (NSF). United States National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network Institute on the Environment Agency of the Czech Republic Czech Academy of Sciences Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). UK. |
Identificador del proyecto | DEB-8114302
DEB8811884 DEB-9411972 DEB-0080382 DEB-0620652 DEB-1234162 DEB0618210 DEB-1042132 DG-0001-13 GACR16-15012S RVO 67985939 2017-T2/AMB-5406 BBS/E/C/000J0300 |
Cita | Valencia, E., de Bello, F., Galland, T., Adler, P.B., Lepš, J., E-Vojtkó, A.,...,Götzenberger, L. (2020). Synchrony Matters More than Species Richness in Plant Community Stability at a Global Scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (39), 24345-24351. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920405117. |
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