Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

Soliveres, Santiago; Manning, Peter; Prati, Daniel; Gossner, Martin M.; Alt, Fabian; Arndt, Hartmut; Baumgartner, Vanessa; Binkenstein, Julia; Birkhofer, Klaus; Blaser, Stefan; Blüthgen, Nico; Boch, Steffen; Böhm, Stefan; Börschig, Carmen; Buscot, Francois; Diekötter, Tim; Heinze, Johannes; Hölzel, Norbert; Jung, Kirsten; Klaus, Valentin H.; ... (2016). Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. Series B - biological sciences, 371(1694), p. 20150269. Royal Society of London 10.1098/rstb.2015.0269

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Species diversity promotes the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality). However, the relative functional importance of rare and common species in driving the biodiversity–multifunctionality relationship remains unknown. We studied the relationship between the diversity of rare and common species (according to their local abundances and across nine different trophic groups), and multifunctionality indices derived from 14 ecosystem functions on 150 grasslands across a land-use intensity (LUI) gradient. The diversity of above- and below-ground rare species had opposite effects, with rare above-ground species being associated with high levels of multifunctionality, probably because their effects on different functions did not trade off against each other. Conversely, common species were only related to average, not high, levels of multifunctionality, and their functional effects declined with LUI. Apart from the community-level effects of diversity, we found significant positive associations between the abundance of individual species and multifunctionality in 6% of the species tested. Species-specific functional effects were best predicted by their response to LUI: species that declined in abundance with land use intensification were those associated with higher levels of multifunctionality. Our results highlight the importance of rare species for ecosystem multifunctionality and help guiding future conservation priorities.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Ecology
10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Community Ecology

UniBE Contributor:

Soliveres, Santiago, Manning, Peter, Prati, Daniel, Blaser, Stefan, Boch, Steffen, Schmitt, Barbara, Socher, Stephanie, Fischer, Markus, Allan, Eric

Subjects:

500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany)

ISSN:

0962-8436

Publisher:

Royal Society of London

Language:

English

Submitter:

Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas

Date Deposited:

09 Jun 2016 09:38

Last Modified:

21 Nov 2023 11:57

Publisher DOI:

10.1098/rstb.2015.0269

PubMed ID:

27114572

Uncontrolled Keywords:

biodiversity; common species; ecosystem function; identity hypothesis; land use; multitrophic

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.83681

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/83681

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