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Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, February 2014
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Title
Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands
Published in
Nature, February 2014
DOI 10.1038/nature13014
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Authors

Yann Hautier, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Peter B. Adler, W. Stanley Harpole, Helmut Hillebrand, Eric M. Lind, Andrew S. MacDougall, Carly J. Stevens, Jonathan D. Bakker, Yvonne M. Buckley, Chengjin Chu, Scott L. Collins, Pedro Daleo, Ellen I. Damschen, Kendi F. Davies, Philip A. Fay, Jennifer Firn, Daniel S. Gruner, Virginia L. Jin, Julia A. Klein, Johannes M. H. Knops, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Wei Li, Rebecca L. McCulley, Brett A. Melbourne, Joslin L. Moore, Lydia R. O’Halloran, Suzanne M. Prober, Anita C. Risch, Mahesh Sankaran, Martin Schuetz, Andy Hector

Abstract

Studies of experimental grassland communities have demonstrated that plant diversity can stabilize productivity through species asynchrony, in which decreases in the biomass of some species are compensated for by increases in others. However, it remains unknown whether these findings are relevant to natural ecosystems, especially those for which species diversity is threatened by anthropogenic global change. Here we analyse diversity-stability relationships from 41 grasslands on five continents and examine how these relationships are affected by chronic fertilization, one of the strongest drivers of species loss globally. Unmanipulated communities with more species had greater species asynchrony, resulting in more stable biomass production, generalizing a result from biodiversity experiments to real-world grasslands. However, fertilization weakened the positive effect of diversity on stability. Contrary to expectations, this was not due to species loss after eutrophication but rather to an increase in the temporal variation of productivity in combination with a decrease in species asynchrony in diverse communities. Our results demonstrate separate and synergistic effects of diversity and eutrophication on stability, emphasizing the need to understand how drivers of global change interactively affect the reliable provisioning of ecosystem services in real-world systems.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 1%
Germany 4 <1%
Argentina 4 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Other 8 1%
Unknown 605 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 151 24%
Researcher 117 18%
Student > Master 76 12%
Student > Bachelor 53 8%
Other 32 5%
Other 107 17%
Unknown 104 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 273 43%
Environmental Science 177 28%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 24 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 2%
Social Sciences 5 <1%
Other 27 4%
Unknown 123 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 143. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 January 2021.
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#283,014
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#15,635
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#2,378
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#229
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