Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle
Language English Country Great Britain, England Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review
PubMed
34088543
DOI
10.1016/j.tree.2021.05.001
PII: S0169-5347(21)00146-4
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- community weighted mean, compensatory dynamics, functional diversity and redundancy, insurance effect, trait probability density,
- MeSH
- Biodiversity * MeSH
- Ecosystem * MeSH
- Phenotype MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Review MeSH
Under global change, how biological diversity and ecosystem services are maintained in time is a fundamental question. Ecologists have long argued about multiple mechanisms by which local biodiversity might control the temporal stability of ecosystem properties. Accumulating theories and empirical evidence suggest that, together with different population and community parameters, these mechanisms largely operate through differences in functional traits among organisms. We review potential trait-stability mechanisms together with underlying tests and associated metrics. We identify various trait-based components, each accounting for different stability mechanisms, that contribute to buffering, or propagating, the effect of environmental fluctuations on ecosystem functioning. This comprehensive picture, obtained by combining different puzzle pieces of trait-stability effects, will guide future empirical and modeling investigations.
CEFE CNRS Univ Montpellier EPHE IRD Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 34293 Montpellier France
Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación 46113 Valencia Spain
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