Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality
International audience Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been a core ecological research topic over the last decades. Although a key hypothesis is that the diversity of functional traits determines ecosystem functioning, we do not know how much trait d...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-01573640v1 2023-05-15T13:44:26+02:00 Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality Gross, Nicolas Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann Liancourt, Pierre Berdugo, Miguel Gotelli, Nicholas J. Maestre, Fernando T. Departamento de Biología y Geología Mostoles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid (URJC) Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Escuela Supererio de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologia, Departamento de Biologia y Geologia, Fisica y Quimica Inorganica, Area de Biodiversidad y Conservacion Faculty of Science, Department of Botany University of South Bohemia Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IB / CAS) Czech Academy of Sciences Prague (CAS) AgreenSkills+ FP7-609398 European Project: 242658,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2009-StG,BIOCOM(2010) 2017 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01573640 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0132 en eng HAL CCSD Nature info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41559-017-0132 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/242658/EU/Biotic community attributes and ecosystem functioning: implications for predicting and mitigating global change impacts/BIOCOM hal-01573640 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01573640 doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0132 PRODINRA: 393150 PUBMEDCENTRAL: PMC5421574 WOS: 000417173100020 http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/licences/copyright/ ISSN: 2397-334X Nature Ecology & Evolution https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01573640 Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017, 1 (5), pp.132. ⟨10.1038/s41559-017-0132⟩ Biodiversity Community ecology Ecosystem ecology [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2017 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0132 2023-01-04T00:05:54Z International audience Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been a core ecological research topic over the last decades. Although a key hypothesis is that the diversity of functional traits determines ecosystem functioning, we do not know how much trait diversity is needed to maintain multiple ecosystem functions simultaneously (multifunctionality). Here, we uncovered a scaling relationship between the abundance distribution of two key plant functional traits (specific leaf area, maximum plant height) and multifunctionality in 124 dryland plant communities spread over all continents except Antarctica. For each trait, we found a strong empirical relationship between the skewness and the kurtosis of the trait distributions that cannot be explained by chance. This relationship predicted a strikingly high trait diversity within dryland plant communities, which was associated with a local maximization of multifunctionality. Skewness and kurtosis had a much stronger impact on multifunctionality than other important multifunctionality drivers such as species richness and aridity. The scaling relationship identified here quantifies how much trait diversity is required to maximize multifunctionality locally. Trait distributions can be used to predict the functional consequences of biodiversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 5 |
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International audience Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been a core ecological research topic over the last decades. Although a key hypothesis is that the diversity of functional traits determines ecosystem functioning, we do not know how much trait diversity is needed to maintain multiple ecosystem functions simultaneously (multifunctionality). Here, we uncovered a scaling relationship between the abundance distribution of two key plant functional traits (specific leaf area, maximum plant height) and multifunctionality in 124 dryland plant communities spread over all continents except Antarctica. For each trait, we found a strong empirical relationship between the skewness and the kurtosis of the trait distributions that cannot be explained by chance. This relationship predicted a strikingly high trait diversity within dryland plant communities, which was associated with a local maximization of multifunctionality. Skewness and kurtosis had a much stronger impact on multifunctionality than other important multifunctionality drivers such as species richness and aridity. The scaling relationship identified here quantifies how much trait diversity is required to maximize multifunctionality locally. Trait distributions can be used to predict the functional consequences of biodiversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems. |
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Departamento de Biología y Geología Mostoles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid (URJC) Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Escuela Supererio de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologia, Departamento de Biologia y Geologia, Fisica y Quimica Inorganica, Area de Biodiversidad y Conservacion Faculty of Science, Department of Botany University of South Bohemia Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IB / CAS) Czech Academy of Sciences Prague (CAS) AgreenSkills+ FP7-609398 European Project: 242658,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2009-StG,BIOCOM(2010) |
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ISSN: 2397-334X Nature Ecology & Evolution https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01573640 Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017, 1 (5), pp.132. ⟨10.1038/s41559-017-0132⟩ |
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