{"id":3981,"date":"2022-06-13T11:05:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:10:20","slug":"new-publication-from-chen-et-al-in-nature-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/new-publication-from-chen-et-al-in-nature-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Chen et al. in Nature Communications: Drought-exposure history increases complementarity between plant species in response to a subsequent drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">Drought-exposure history increases complementarity between plant species in response to a subsequent drought Growing threats from extreme climatic events and biodiversity loss have  raised concerns about their interactive consequences for ecosystem  functioning. Evidence suggests biodiversity can buffer ecosystem  functioning during such climatic events. However, whether exposure to  extreme climatic events will strengthen the biodiversity-dependent  buffering effects for future generations remains elusive. <\/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-195.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3984\" width=\"354\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-195.png 587w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-195-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption>Experimental design<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">We assess such  transgenerational effects by exposing experimental grassland  communities to eight recurrent summer droughts versus ambient conditions  in the field. Seed offspring of 12 species are then subjected to a  subsequent drought event in the glasshouse, grown individually, in  monocultures or in 2-species mixtures. Comparing productivity between  mixtures and monocultures, drought-selected plants show greater  between-species complementarity than ambient-selected plants when  recovering from the subsequent drought, causing stronger biodiversity  effects on productivity and better recovery of drought-selected mixtures  after the drought. These findings suggest exposure to recurrent  climatic events can improve ecosystem responses to future events through  transgenerational reinforcement of species complementarity. Drought-exposure history increases complementarity between plant species in response to a subsequent drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Chen, Y., Vogel, A., Wagg, C. <em>et al.<\/em> Drought-exposure history increases complementarity between plant species in response to a subsequent drought. <em>Nat Commun<\/em><strong>13, <\/strong>3217 (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-022-30954-9\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-022-30954-9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drought-exposure history increases complementarity between plant species in response to a subsequent drought Growing threats from extreme climatic events and biodiversity loss have raised concerns about their interactive consequences for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3984,"comment_status":"closed","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\/3981"}],"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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3989,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}