Environmental Factors Can Have Opposite Biodiversity Influences on the Community Temporal Stability In Aquatic Ecosystems

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Hauptverfasser: Wen, Zihao, Shan, Hang, Wang, Hao, Cao, Yu, He, Liang, Ren, Wenjing, Yin, Chengjie, Chou, Qingchuan, Lv, Chaochao, Su, Haojie, Tang, Tao, Cai, Qinghua, Ni, Leyi, Xiao, Wen, Zhang, Xiaolin, Li, Kuanyi, Cao, Te, Chiu, Ming-Chih, Resh, Vincent H., Urrutia-Cordero, Pablo
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author Wen, Zihao
Shan, Hang
Wang, Hao
Cao, Yu
He, Liang
Ren, Wenjing
Yin, Chengjie
Chou, Qingchuan
Lv, Chaochao
Su, Haojie
Tang, Tao
Cai, Qinghua
Ni, Leyi
Xiao, Wen
Zhang, Xiaolin
Li, Kuanyi
Cao, Te
Chiu, Ming-Chih
Resh, Vincent H.
Urrutia-Cordero, Pablo
author_facet Wen, Zihao
Shan, Hang
Wang, Hao
Cao, Yu
He, Liang
Ren, Wenjing
Yin, Chengjie
Chou, Qingchuan
Lv, Chaochao
Su, Haojie
Tang, Tao
Cai, Qinghua
Ni, Leyi
Xiao, Wen
Zhang, Xiaolin
Li, Kuanyi
Cao, Te
Chiu, Ming-Chih
Resh, Vincent H.
Urrutia-Cordero, Pablo
contents 1. An understanding of how biodiversity confers ecosystem stability is crucial in managing ecosystems under major environmental changes. Multiple biodiversity drivers can stabilize ecosystem functions over time. However, we know little about how local environmental conditions can influence these biodiversity drivers, and consequently how they indirectly shape the ecological stability of ecosystems. 2. We hypothesized that environmental factors can have opposite influences (i.e., not necessarily either positive or negative) on the temporal stability of communities in different environmental ranges depending on the biodiversity drivers involved. We tested this novel hypothesis by using data from a 4-year-long field study of submerged macrophyte across a water depth gradient in 8 heterogeneous bays of Erhai lake (with total sample size of 30,071 quadrats), a large lentic system in China. 3. Results indicate that a unimodal pattern of stability in temporal biomass measurements occurred along the water-depth gradient, and that multiple biodiversity drivers (the asynchrony in species dynamics, and the stability of dominant species) generally increased the temporal stability of aquatic primary producers. However, the effect of water depth either increased or decreased the stability of biomass according to the environmental conditions associated with sites along the water depth gradient. 4. Synthesis. These results reveal the influence of local environmental conditions on the biodiversity drivers of stability may help predict the functional consequences of biodiversity change across different scenarios of environmental change.
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spellingShingle Environmental Factors Can Have Opposite Biodiversity Influences on the Community Temporal Stability In Aquatic Ecosystems
Wen, Zihao
Shan, Hang
Wang, Hao
Cao, Yu
He, Liang
Ren, Wenjing
Yin, Chengjie
Chou, Qingchuan
Lv, Chaochao
Su, Haojie
Tang, Tao
Cai, Qinghua
Ni, Leyi
Xiao, Wen
Zhang, Xiaolin
Li, Kuanyi
Cao, Te
Chiu, Ming-Chih
Resh, Vincent H.
Urrutia-Cordero, Pablo
Populations and Evolution
1. An understanding of how biodiversity confers ecosystem stability is crucial in managing ecosystems under major environmental changes. Multiple biodiversity drivers can stabilize ecosystem functions over time. However, we know little about how local environmental conditions can influence these biodiversity drivers, and consequently how they indirectly shape the ecological stability of ecosystems. 2. We hypothesized that environmental factors can have opposite influences (i.e., not necessarily either positive or negative) on the temporal stability of communities in different environmental ranges depending on the biodiversity drivers involved. We tested this novel hypothesis by using data from a 4-year-long field study of submerged macrophyte across a water depth gradient in 8 heterogeneous bays of Erhai lake (with total sample size of 30,071 quadrats), a large lentic system in China. 3. Results indicate that a unimodal pattern of stability in temporal biomass measurements occurred along the water-depth gradient, and that multiple biodiversity drivers (the asynchrony in species dynamics, and the stability of dominant species) generally increased the temporal stability of aquatic primary producers. However, the effect of water depth either increased or decreased the stability of biomass according to the environmental conditions associated with sites along the water depth gradient. 4. Synthesis. These results reveal the influence of local environmental conditions on the biodiversity drivers of stability may help predict the functional consequences of biodiversity change across different scenarios of environmental change.
title Environmental Factors Can Have Opposite Biodiversity Influences on the Community Temporal Stability In Aquatic Ecosystems
topic Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03044