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Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change
- Source :
- Ecology letters, Ecology Letters, 25(2), 555. NLM (Medline), Hong, Pubin; Schmid, Bernhard; De Laender, Frederik; Eisenhauer, Nico; Zhang, Xingwen; Chen, Haozhen; Craven, Dylan; De Boeck, Hans J.; Hautier, Yann; Petchey, Owen L.; Reich, Peter B.; Steudel, Bastian; Striebel, Maren; Thakur, Madhav P.; Wang, Shaopeng (2022). Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change. Ecology Letters, 25(2), pp. 555-569. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 10.1111/ele.13936
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2022.
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Abstract
- Three decades of research have demonstrated that biodiversity can promote the functioning of ecosystems. Yet, it is unclear whether the positive effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning will persist under various types of global environmental change drivers. We conducted a meta-analysis of 46 factorial experiments manipulating both species richness and the environment to test how global change drivers (i.e. warming, drought, nutrient addition or CO2 enrichment) modulated the effect of biodiversity on multiple ecosystem functions across three taxonomic groups (microbes, phytoplankton and plants). We found that biodiversity increased ecosystem functioning in both ambient and manipulated environments, but often not to the same degree. In particular, biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning were larger in stressful environments induced by global change drivers, indicating that high-diversity communities were more resistant to environmental change. Using a subset of studies, we also found that the positive effects of biodiversity were mainly driven by interspecific complementarity and that these effects increased over time in both ambient and manipulated environments. Our findings support biodiversity conservation as a key strategy for sustainable ecosystem management in the face of global environmental change.
- Subjects :
- stress gradient hypothesis
Environmental change
UFSP13-8 Global Change and Biodiversity
Evolution
Biodiversity
10127 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Behavior and Systematics
ecosystem function
Ecosystem
910 Geography & travel
Biology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
biodiversity
Ecology
Global change
Interspecific competition
environmental change
Nutrients
Droughts
meta-analysis
Chemistry
Geography
10122 Institute of Geography
1105 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Complementarity (molecular biology)
Phytoplankton
Ecosystem management
570 Life sciences
biology
590 Animals (Zoology)
Species richness
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1461023X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ecology letters, Ecology Letters, 25(2), 555. NLM (Medline), Hong, Pubin; Schmid, Bernhard; De Laender, Frederik; Eisenhauer, Nico; Zhang, Xingwen; Chen, Haozhen; Craven, Dylan; De Boeck, Hans J.; Hautier, Yann; Petchey, Owen L.; Reich, Peter B.; Steudel, Bastian; Striebel, Maren; Thakur, Madhav P.; Wang, Shaopeng (2022). Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change. Ecology Letters, 25(2), pp. 555-569. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 10.1111/ele.13936 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13936>
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a4f3f541d81a90bb0750fd5903fac2bf
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-217002