No general support for functional diversity enhancing resilience across terrestrial plant communities

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Lipoma, Lucrecia ; Kambach, Stephan ; Díaz, Sandra ; Sabatini, Francesco María ; Damasceno, Gabriella ; Kattge, Jens ; Wirth, Christian ; Abella, Scott R. ; Beierkuhnlein, Carl ; Belote, Travis R. ; Bernhardt‐Römermann, Markus ; Craven, Dylan ; Dolezal, Jiri ; Eisenhauer, Nico ; Isbell, Forest ; Jentsch, Anke ; Kreyling, Jürgen ; Lanta, Vojtech ; Le Stradic, Soizig ; Lepš, Jan ; Manninen, Outi ; Mariotte, Pierre ; Reich, Peter B. ; Ruppert, Jan C. ; Schmidt, Wolfgang ; Tilman, David ; van Ruijven, Jasper ; Wagg, Cameron ; Wardle, David A. ; Wilsey, Brien ; Bruelheide, Helge:
No general support for functional diversity enhancing resilience across terrestrial plant communities.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. Bd. 33 (2024) Heft 10 . - e13895.
ISSN 1466-822X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13895

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Abstract

Understanding the mechanisms promoting resilience in plant communities is crucial in times of increasing disturbance and global environmental change. Here, we present the first meta-analysis evaluating the relationship between functional diversity and resilience of plant communities. Specifically, we tested whether the resilience of plant communities is positively correlated with interspecific trait variation (following the niche complementarity hypothesis) and the dominance of acquisitive and small-size species (following the mass ratio hypothesis), and for the context-dependent effects of ecological and methodological differences across studies.