Neyret, Margot; Le Provost, Gaëtane; Boesing, Andrea Larissa; Schneider, Florian D; Baulechner, Dennis; Bergmann, Joana; de Vries, Franciska T; Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria; Geisen, Stefan; Goldmann, Kezia; Merges, Anna; Saifutdinov, Ruslan A; Simons, Nadja K; Tobias, Joseph A; Zaitsev, Andrey S; Gossner, Martin M; Jung, Kirsten; Kandeler, Ellen; Krauss, Jochen; Penone, Caterina; ... (2024). A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification. Nature communications, 15(1251) Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-024-45113-5
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Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these strategies at the entire community level is unclear. Here, we combine trait data for >2800 above- and belowground taxa from 14 trophic guilds spanning a disturbance and resource availability gradient in German grasslands. The results indicate that most guilds consistently respond to these drivers through both direct and trophically mediated effects, resulting in a 'slow-fast' axis at the level of the entire community. Using 15 indicators of carbon and nutrient fluxes, biomass production and decomposition, we also show that fast trait communities are associated with faster rates of ecosystem functioning. These findings demonstrate that 'slow' and 'fast' strategies can be manifested at the level of whole communities, opening new avenues of ecosystem-level functional classification.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Ecology 08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Penone, Caterina, Bolliger, Ralph Frédéric, Fischer, Markus, Schenk, Noëlle Valérie |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany) 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
2041-1723 |
Publisher: |
Nature Publishing Group |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
12 Feb 2024 08:58 |
Last Modified: |
25 Mar 2024 08:38 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1038/s41467-024-45113-5 |
PubMed ID: |
38341437 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/192787 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/192787 |
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