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DOI 10.1111/ele.13776
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Title (Primary) The function-dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships
Author Crawford, M.S.; Barry, K.E.; Clark, A.T.; Farrior, C.E.; Hines, J.; Ladouceur, E.; Lichstein, J.W.; Maréchaux, I.; May, F.; Mori, A.S.; Reineking, B.; Turnbull, L.A.; Wirth, C.; Rüger, N.
Source Titel Ecology Letters
Year 2021
Department iDiv; PHYDIV
Volume 24
Issue 9
Page From 1762
Page To 1775
Language englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
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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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Crawford, M.S., Barry, K.E., Clark, A.T., Farrior, C.E., Hines, J., Ladouceur, E., Lichstein, J.W., Maréchaux, I., May, F., Mori, A.S., Reineking, B., Turnbull, L.A., Wirth, C., Rüger, N. (2021):
The function-dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships
Ecol. Lett. 24 (9), 1762 - 1775 10.1111/ele.13776