{"id":2424,"date":"2020-10-08T08:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2020-10-14T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:02:44","slug":"van-moorsel-et-al-in-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2020\/10\/08\/van-moorsel-et-al-in-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from van Moorsel et al. in Ecology: Co\u2010occurrence history increases ecosystem stability and resilience in experimental plant communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-25-e1602145295338.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2429\" width=\"258\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-25-e1602145295338.png 381w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-25-e1602145295338-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">Understanding factors that maintain ecosystem stability is critical in  the face of environmental change. Experiments simulating species loss  from grassland have shown that losing biodiversity decreases ecosystem  stability. However, as the originally sown experimental communities with  reduced biodiversity develop, plant evolutionary processes or the  assembly of interacting soil organisms may allow ecosystems to increase  stability over time. We explored such effects in a long\u2010term grassland  biodiversity experiment with plant communities with either a history of  co\u2010occurrence (selected communities) or no such history (na\u00efve  communities) over a four\u2010year period in which a major flood disturbance  occurred. Comparing communities of identical species composition, we  found that selected communities had temporally more stable biomass than  na\u00efve communities, especially at low species richness. Furthermore,  selected communities showed greater biomass recovery after flooding,  resulting in more stable post\u2010flood productivity. In contrast to a  previous study, the positive diversity\u2013stability relationship was  maintained after the flooding. Our results were consistent across three  soil treatments simulating the presence or absence of co\u2010selected  microbial communities. We suggest that prolonged exposure of plant  populations to a particular community context and abiotic site  conditions can increase ecosystem temporal stability and resilience due  to short\u2010term evolution. A history of co\u2010occurrence can in part  compensate for species loss, as can high plant diversity in part  compensate for the missing opportunity of such adaptive adjustments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"891\" height=\"633\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2427\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-24.png 891w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-24-300x213.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-24-768x546.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><figcaption>Experimental set-up of plant communities in the field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>van Moorsel, S.J., Hahl, T., Petchey, O.L., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N.,   Schmid, B. and Wagg, C. (2020), Co\u2010occurrence history increases ecosystem stability and resilience in experimental plant communities. Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ecy.3205\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ecy.3205<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding factors that maintain ecosystem stability is critical in the face of environmental change. Experiments simulating species loss from grassland have shown that losing biodiversity decreases ecosystem stability. However, as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}