{"id":4682,"date":"2024-03-18T08:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2024-03-18T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:14:40","slug":"new-publication-by-dietrich-et-al-in-global-change-biology-plant-diversity-and-community-age-stabilize-ecosystem-multifunctionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/new-publication-by-dietrich-et-al-in-global-change-biology-plant-diversity-and-community-age-stabilize-ecosystem-multifunctionality\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Dietrich et al. in Global Change Biology: Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">It is well known that biodiversity positively affects ecosystem  functioning, leading to enhanced ecosystem stability. However, this  knowledge is mainly based on analyses using single ecosystem functions,  while studies focusing on the stability of ecosystem multifunctionality  (EMF) are rare. Taking advantage of a long-term grassland biodiversity  experiment, we studied the effect of plant diversity (1\u201360 species) on  EMF over 5\u2009years, its temporal stability, as well as multifunctional  resistance and resilience to a 2-year drought event. Using split-plot  treatments, we further tested whether a shared history of plants and  soil influences the studied relationships. We calculated EMF based on  functions related to plants and higher-trophic levels. Plant diversity  enhanced EMF in all studied years, and this effect strengthened over the  study period. Moreover, plant diversity increased the temporal  stability of EMF and fostered resistance to reoccurring drought events.  Old plant communities with shared plant and soil history showed a  stronger plant diversity\u2013multifunctionality relationship and higher  temporal stability of EMF than younger communities without shared  histories. Our results highlight the importance of old and biodiverse  plant communities for EMF and its stability to extreme climate events in  a world increasingly threatened by global change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/gcb17225-fig-0004-m-715x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4685\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/gcb17225-fig-0004-m-715x1024.jpg 715w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/gcb17225-fig-0004-m-209x300.jpg 209w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/gcb17225-fig-0004-m-768x1100.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/gcb17225-fig-0004-m-1072x1536.jpg 1072w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/gcb17225-fig-0004-m-1429x2048.jpg 1429w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/gcb17225-fig-0004-m-scaled.jpg 1787w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><figcaption>Temporal  stability of ecosystem multifunctionality (log-transformed) as a  function of log-transformed plant species richness (a) and as bar plot  for the different history treatments (old, new, and re-sown communities;  b). Each dot in (a) represents a plant community; regression line is  based on mixed-effects model (predicted means). Solid line indicates  significant relationship (<em>p<\/em>\u2009&lt;\u2009.05), and gray shade is SE. Bars  in (b) show mean values (\u00b11\u2009SE); letters without brackets above bars  indicate significant (<em>p<\/em>\u2009&lt;\u2009.05) differences among history treatments, letters with brackets indicate marginally significant (.05\u2009&lt;\u2009<em>p<\/em>\u2009&lt;\u2009.1) differences (Tukey&#8217;s HSD test).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Reference:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dietrich, P., A. Ebeling, S. T. Meyer, A. E. B. Asato, M. Br\u00f6cher, et al. 2024. Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality. Global Change Biology 30:e17225. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/gcb.17225\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/gcb.17225<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that biodiversity positively affects ecosystem functioning, leading to enhanced ecosystem stability. 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