sTability - Plant diversity effects on ecosystem resistance to and recovery from perturbations
First meeting: 21.-23.10.2013
PIs:
Nico Eisenhauer
Forest Isbell
Working group postdoc:
Dylan Craven
iDiv member:
Christian Wirth
Project summary:
Biodiversity is thought to insure ecosystem functioning in a changing world. There is considerable theoretical and empirical evidence that declines in diversity could decrease average levels of ecosystem functioning and increase the temporal variability of productivity. Yet it remains unclear whether plant diversity also buffers ecosystems from perturbations, such as altered climate or biogeochemical cycles. To comprehensively test this hypothesis, we will synthesize data from many biodiversity studies to investigate whether ecosystem functioning changes less (higher resistance) and recovers more quickly (higher resilience) from perturbations in high- than in lowdiversity plant communities. We will consider perturbations that were either observed, such as extreme climatic events like drought, or that were experimentally imposed, such as manipulations of nutrients, water, carbon dioxide, or herbivores. We will further distinguish between the effects of press and pulse perturbations; between species- and community-level responses; between taxonomic and functional diversity; and between perturbations that increase or decrease abundances. For example, we will test whether community productivity decreases less in highthan in low-diversity communities during a drought, or under a precipitation removal treatment that was crossed with a diversity treatment. We will also synthesize and extend theory to predict the conditions under which diversity enhances or reduces resistance and resilience.
Participants:
John Connolly (University College Dublin), Dylan Craven (Univ. of Jena), Anne Ebeling (Univ. of Jena), Nico Eisenhauer (Univ. of Jena), John Griffin (Swansea University Wales), Nathaly Guerrero Ramirez (Univ. of Jena), Yann Hautier (University of Minnesota), Andrew Hector (University of Oxford), Jessica Hines (Univ. of Jena), Forest Isbell (University of Minnesota), Michel Loreau (Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS), Pete Manning (University of Bern), Sebastian Meyer (TU München), Akira Mori (Yokohama National University), Kevin Mueller (U.S. Department of Agriculture / Agriculural Research Service), Shahid Naeem (Columbia University), Christiane Roscher (UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research), Eric Seabloom (University of Minnesota), Madhav Thakur (Univ. of Jena), Jasper van Ruijven (University of Wageningen), Wolfgang Weisser (TU München), Brian Wilsey (Iowa State University), Alexandra Weigelt (Leipzig University)
Second meeting: 06.-10.10.2014
Participants:
John Connolly (University College Dublin); Dylan Craven (iDiv); Anne Ebeling (University Jena); Nico Eisenhauer (iDiv); John Griffin (Swansea University); Stan Harpole (iDiv); Yann Hautier (University of Oxford); Jessica Hines (iDiv); Forest Isbell (University of Georgia); Anke Jentsch (University Bayreuth); Peter Manning (University Bern); Sebastian Meyer (University München); Will Pearse (University of Minnesota); Christiane Roscher (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ); Melinda Smith (Colorado State University); Jasper van Ruijven (Wageningen University)
writing retreat, iDiv: 03.-06.11.2015
Participants:
Nico Eisenhauer; Jes Hines; Dylan Craven; William Pearse; Nathan Lemoine; Peter Manning; Christiane Roscher
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Publications:
Isbell F. et al. (2015) "Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes." Nature advance online publication (7574): 574-577. see here
Eisenhauer N., Forest I., Craven D. et al. (2016) "Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought." The Royal Society. see here
Craven D. , Eisenhauer N. et al. (2018) "Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship." Nature Ecology & Evolution. see here
Wang, S. et al. (2021) "Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony." Ecology 102(6):e03332. see here