{"id":4105,"date":"2022-12-15T08:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T09:59:54","slug":"new-publication-from-wagg-et-al-in-nature-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/new-publication-from-wagg-et-al-in-nature-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Wagg et al. in Nature Communication: Biodiversity\u2013stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem  functioning, yet how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and  stability in the long-term lacks experimental evidence. We report  temporal effects of species richness on community productivity,  stability, species asynchrony, and complementarity, and how the  relationships among them change over 17 years in a grassland  biodiversity experiment. Productivity declined more rapidly in less  diverse communities resulting in temporally strengthening positive  effects of richness on productivity, complementarity, and stability. In  later years asynchrony played a more important role in increasing  community stability as the negative effect of richness on population  stability diminished. Only during later years did species  complementarity relate to species asynchrony. These results show that  species complementarity and asynchrony can take more than a decade to  develop strong stabilizing effects on ecosystem functioning in diverse  plant communities. Thus, the mechanisms stabilizing ecosystem  functioning change with community age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media.springernature.com\/lw685\/springer-static\/image\/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-022-35189-2\/MediaObjects\/41467_2022_35189_Fig1_HTML.png\" alt=\"figure 1\"\/><figcaption> Fig. 1 | Sown species richness\u2013productivity relationships through time.  The log linear relationships between sown species richness and a  aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP square root transformed prior  to analysis) of the communities and b relative yield (ANPP divided by  mean ANPP of monocultures in that year) of the communities are shown for  each year (1 = 2003, 17 = 2019). c The slope of the  log\u2013log relationship (power exponent b of curves shown in b)  corresponding to the increase in biomass per added species relative to  the mean ANPP of all monocultures for each year. d The change in ANPP of  the communities over time relative to their ANPPs in year 1 for each  sown species richness level 1\u20131 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Wagg, C., Roscher, C., Weigelt, A. <em>et al.<\/em> Biodiversity\u2013stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment. <em>Nat Commun <\/em><strong>13<\/strong>, 7752 (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-022-35189-2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-022-35189-2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the long-term lacks experimental evidence. We report temporal effects of species&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4109,"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\/4105"}],"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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}