Title data
Avolio, Meghan L. ; Komatsu, Kimberly J. ; Collins, Scott L. ; Grman, Emily ; Koerner, Sally E. ; Tredennick, Andrew T. ; Wilcox, Kevin R. ; Baer, Sara ; Boughton, Elizabeth H. ; Britton, Andrea J. ; Foster, Bryan ; Gough, Laura ; Hovenden, Mark ; Isbel, Forest ; Jentsch, Anke ; Johnson, David S. ; Knapp, Alan K. ; Kreyling, Jürgen ; Langley, J. Adam ; Lortie, Christopher ; McCulley, Rebecca L. ; McLaren, Jennie R. ; Reich, Peter B. ; Seabloom, Eric W. ; Smith, Melinda D. ; Suding, Katharine N. ; Suttle, Blake ; Tognetti, Pedro:
Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change.
In: Ecology Letters.
Vol. 24
(2021)
Issue 9
.
- pp. 1892-1904.
ISSN 1461-0248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13824
Abstract in another language
Global change is impacting plant community composition, but the mechanisms underlying these changes are unclear. Using a dataset of 58 global change experiments, we tested the five fundamental mechanisms of community change: changes in evenness and richness, reordering, species gains and losses. We found 71% of communities were impacted by global change treatments, and 88% of communities that were exposed to two or more global change drivers were impacted. Further, all mechanisms of change were equally likely to be affected by global change treatments—species losses and changes in richness were just as common as species gains and reordering. We also found no evidence of a progression of community changes, for example, reordering and changes in evenness did not precede species gains and losses. We demonstrate that all processes underlying plant community composition changes are equally affected by treatments and often occur simultaneously, necessitating a wholistic approach to quantifying community changes.
Further data
Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Professor Disturbance Ecology Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Professor Disturbance Ecology > Professor Disturbance Ecology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anke Jentsch Faculties |
Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
DDC Subjects: | 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences, geology 500 Science > 570 Life sciences, biology 500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2022 06:57 |
Last Modified: | 31 May 2023 06:50 |
URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/68747 |