{"id":2663,"date":"2020-11-27T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenaexperiment.uni-jena.de\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:32:00","slug":"new-publication-from-xu-et-al-in-proc-r-soc-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/new-publication-from-xu-et-al-in-proc-r-soc-b\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Xu et al. in Proc. R. Soc. B: Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">Plant diversity has a strong impact on a plethora of ecosystem functions  and services, especially ecosystem carbon (C) storage. However, the  potential context-dependency of biodiversity effects across ecosystem  types, environmental conditions and carbon pools remains largely  unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2664\" width=\"274\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-43.png 528w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-43-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption>aboveground biomass (AB), <br>belowground biomass (BB), <br>microbial biomass carbon (MBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">In this study, we performed a meta-analysis by collecting data  from 95 biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) studies across 60 sites  to explore the effects of plant diversity on different C pools,  including aboveground and belowground plant biomass, soil microbial  biomass C and soil C content across different ecosystem types. The  results showed that ecosystem C storage was significantly enhanced by  plant diversity, with stronger effects on aboveground biomass than on  soil C content. Moreover, the response magnitudes of ecosystem C storage  increased with the level of species richness and experimental duration  across all ecosystems. The effects of plant diversity were more  pronounced in grasslands than in forests. Furthermore, the effects of  plant diversity on belowground plant biomass increased with aridity  index in grasslands and forests, suggesting that climate change might  modulate biodiversity effects, which are stronger under wetter  conditions but weaker under more arid conditions. Taken together, these  results provide novel insights into the important role of plant  diversity in ecosystem C storage across critical C pools, ecosystem  types and environmental contexts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Xu S, Eisenhauer N, Ferlian O, Zhang J, Zhou G, Lu X, Liu C, Zhang D. Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments. 2020. Proc. R. Soc. B. 287: 28720202063. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2020.2063\">http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2020.2063<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant diversity has a strong impact on a plethora of ecosystem functions and services, especially ecosystem carbon (C) storage. However, the potential context-dependency of biodiversity effects across ecosystem types, environmental&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2668,"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\/2663"}],"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=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}