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- Title
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels.
- Authors
Cappelli, Seraina L.; Pichon, Noémie A.; Mannall, Tosca; Allan, Eric
- Abstract
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning can be partitioned into complementarity effects, driven by many species, and selection effects, driven by few. Selection effects occur through interspecific abundance shifts (dominance) and intraspecific shifts in functioning. Complementarity and selection effects are often calculated for biomass, but very rarely for secondary productivity, that is, energy transfer to higher trophic levels. We calculated diversity effects for three functions: aboveground biomass, insect herbivory and pathogen infection, the latter two as proxies for energy transfer to higher trophic levels, in a grassland experiment (PaNDiv) manipulating species richness, functional composition, nitrogen enrichment, and fungicide treatment. Complementarity effects were, on average, positive and selection effects negative for biomass production and pathogen infection and multiple species contributed to diversity effects in mixtures. Diversity effects were, on average, less pronounced for herbivory. Diversity effects for the three functions were not correlated, because different species drove the different effects. Benefits (and costs) from growing in diverse communities, be it reduced herbivore or pathogen damage or increased productivity either due to abundance increases or increased productivity per area were distributed across different plant species, leading to highly variable contributions of single species to effects of diversity on different functions. These results show that different underlying ecological mechanisms can result in similar overall diversity effects across functions.
- Subjects
FOOD chains; ECOSYSTEMS; SPECIES diversity; BIOMASS production; INSECT pathogens; FOREST productivity; PLANT diversity
- Publication
Ecological Monographs, 2022, Vol 92, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0012-9615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ecm.1521