Data from: Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships change through primary succession
Ecologists traditionally use environmental parameters to predict successional shifts in compositional characteristics of local species assemblages (environmental control). Another important focus in ecology is to understand functional roles of species assemblages in determining local environmental p...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::3bbf2cbf36d90f7dbc4680b20c3cb9ba 2023-05-15T14:55:46+02:00 Data from: Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships change through primary succession Mori, Akira S. Osono, Takashi Cornelissen, J. Hans C. Craine, Joseph Uchida, Masaki 2017-01-01 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7tv64 undefined unknown Dryad Digital Repository https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7tv64 http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7tv64 lic_creative-commons 10.5061/dryad.7tv64 oai:services.nod.dans.knaw.nl:Products/dans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:102351 oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:102351 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 re3data_____::r3d100000044 10|eurocrisdris::fe4903425d9040f680d8610d9079ea14 10|re3data_____::94816e6421eeb072e7742ce6a9decc5f 10|re3data_____::84e123776089ce3c7a33db98d9cd15a8 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 functional diversity high Arctic tundra species richness soil properties vegetation Ellesmere island Nunavut Canada Life sciences medicine and health care envir geo Dataset https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_ddb1/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7tv64 2023-01-22T17:22:27Z Ecologists traditionally use environmental parameters to predict successional shifts in compositional characteristics of local species assemblages (environmental control). Another important focus in ecology is to understand functional roles of species assemblages in determining local environmental properties (diversity control). Then, the question emerges: which is the cause, and which is the consequence? To clarify the causal relationships between species assemblages and environmental properties, we focused on seral changes in species/functional diversity of vascular plants in tundra ecosystems of the High Arctic. We found that, although species richness was influenced by soil properties in the earlier stages of primary succession, the causalities were reversed in the later stages. We also found functional differentiation among coexisting species in the later stage, suggesting that the ‘complementarity effect’ of diversity on ecosystem functions likely increased with ecosystem development through time. By contrast, particular species had little disproportional influence on soil properties, suggesting that the ‘selection effect’ as an alternative mechanism was less important. This result was likely attributed to the importance of facilitation in the marginal High Arctic environment. Plant–microsite associations are shaped by feedback mechanisms and therefore, neither plant nor microsite is a single absolute predictor of the other. Although our observational study has limitations, we demonstrates a possibility that the relative magnitude of the influence of one on the other can change in the process of succession, emphasizing that the causalities underlying biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships change through succession. moraineA2 Community data (early stage) moraineB2 Community data (middle stage) moraineC2 Community data (middle-late stage) moraineD2 Community data (late stage) moraineA_EnvCov Quadrat data (early stage) moraineB_EnvCov Quadrat data (middle stage) moraineC_EnvCov Quadrat data ... Dataset Arctic Ellesmere Island Nunavut Tundra Unknown Arctic Nunavut Ellesmere Island Canada |
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Ecologists traditionally use environmental parameters to predict successional shifts in compositional characteristics of local species assemblages (environmental control). Another important focus in ecology is to understand functional roles of species assemblages in determining local environmental properties (diversity control). Then, the question emerges: which is the cause, and which is the consequence? To clarify the causal relationships between species assemblages and environmental properties, we focused on seral changes in species/functional diversity of vascular plants in tundra ecosystems of the High Arctic. We found that, although species richness was influenced by soil properties in the earlier stages of primary succession, the causalities were reversed in the later stages. We also found functional differentiation among coexisting species in the later stage, suggesting that the ‘complementarity effect’ of diversity on ecosystem functions likely increased with ecosystem development through time. By contrast, particular species had little disproportional influence on soil properties, suggesting that the ‘selection effect’ as an alternative mechanism was less important. This result was likely attributed to the importance of facilitation in the marginal High Arctic environment. Plant–microsite associations are shaped by feedback mechanisms and therefore, neither plant nor microsite is a single absolute predictor of the other. Although our observational study has limitations, we demonstrates a possibility that the relative magnitude of the influence of one on the other can change in the process of succession, emphasizing that the causalities underlying biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships change through succession. moraineA2 Community data (early stage) moraineB2 Community data (middle stage) moraineC2 Community data (middle-late stage) moraineD2 Community data (late stage) moraineA_EnvCov Quadrat data (early stage) moraineB_EnvCov Quadrat data (middle stage) moraineC_EnvCov Quadrat data ... |
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Data from: Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships change through primary succession |
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