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DOI | 10.1038/s41559-021-01550-9 |
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient | |
Albrecht J.; Peters M.K.; Becker J.N.; Behler C.; Classen A.; Ensslin A.; Ferger S.W.; Gebert F.; Gerschlauer F.; Helbig-Bonitz M.; Kindeketa W.J.; Kühnel A.; Mayr A.V.; Njovu H.K.; Pabst H.; Pommer U.; R?der J.; Rutten G.; Schellenberger Costa D.; Sierra-Cornejo N.; Vogeler A.; Vollst?dt M.G.R.; Dulle H.I.; Eardley C.D.; Howell K.M.; Keller A.; Peters R.S.; Kakengi V.; Hemp C.; Zhang J.; Manning P.; Mueller T.; Bogner C.; B?hning-Gaese K.; Brandl R.; Hertel D.; Huwe B.; Kiese R.; Kleyer M.; Leuschner C.; Kuzyakov Y.; Nauss T.; Tschapka M.; Fischer M.; Hemp A.; Steffan-Dewenter I.; Schleuning M. | |
发表日期 | 2021 |
ISSN | 2397-334X |
起始页码 | 1582 |
结束页码 | 1593 |
卷号 | 5期号:12 |
英文摘要 | Many experiments have shown that biodiversity enhances ecosystem functioning. However, we have little understanding of how environmental heterogeneity shapes the effect of diversity on ecosystem functioning and to what extent this diversity effect is mediated by variation in species richness or species turnover. This knowledge is crucial to scaling up the results of experiments from local to regional scales. Here we quantify the diversity effect and its components—that is, the contributions of variation in species richness and species turnover—for 22 ecosystem functions of microorganisms, plants and animals across 13 major ecosystem types on Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Environmental heterogeneity across ecosystem types on average increased the diversity effect from explaining 49% to 72% of the variation in ecosystem functions. In contrast to our expectation, the diversity effect was more strongly mediated by variation in species richness than by species turnover. Our findings reveal that environmental heterogeneity strengthens the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and that species richness is a stronger driver of ecosystem functioning than species turnover. Based on a broad range of taxa and ecosystem functions in a non-experimental system, these results are in line with predictions from biodiversity experiments and emphasize that conserving biodiversity is essential for maintaining ecosystem functioning. ? 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | animal; biodiversity; ecosystem; plant; Tanzania; Animals; Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Plants; Tanzania |
来源期刊 | Nature Ecology & Evolution |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256815 |
作者单位 | Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, Germany; Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, and Department of Agricultural Soil Science, University of G?ttingen, G?ttingen, Germany; Institute of Soil Science, CEN Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Institute for Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Regional Council Freiburg, State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining, Soil Science, Freiburg, Germany; Tanzania Forestry Research Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania; Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture, Institute for Organic Farming, Soil and Resource Management, Freising... |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Albrecht J.,Peters M.K.,Becker J.N.,et al. Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient[J],2021,5(12). |
APA | Albrecht J..,Peters M.K..,Becker J.N..,Behler C..,Classen A..,...&Schleuning M..(2021).Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient.Nature Ecology & Evolution,5(12). |
MLA | Albrecht J.,et al."Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient".Nature Ecology & Evolution 5.12(2021). |
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