{"id":4688,"date":"2024-03-18T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2024-03-18T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:20:43","slug":"new-publication-from-zheng-et-al-in-nature-communications-effects-of-plant-diversity-on-productivity-strengthen-over-time-due-to-trait-dependent-shifts-in-species-overyielding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/new-publication-from-zheng-et-al-in-nature-communications-effects-of-plant-diversity-on-productivity-strengthen-over-time-due-to-trait-dependent-shifts-in-species-overyielding\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Zheng et al. in Nature Communications: Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">Plant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over  time. Whether the strengthening of diversity effects is caused by  temporal shifts in species-level overyielding (i.e., higher  species-level productivity in diverse communities compared with  monocultures) remains unclear. Here, using data from 65 grassland and  forest biodiversity experiments, we show that the temporal strength of  diversity effects at the community scale is underpinned by temporal  changes in the species that yield. These temporal trends of  species-level overyielding are shaped by plant ecological strategies,  which can be quantitatively delimited by functional traits. In  grasslands, the temporal strengthening of biodiversity effects on  community productivity was associated with increasing biomass  overyielding of resource-conservative species increasing over time, and  with overyielding of species characterized by fast resource acquisition  either decreasing or increasing. In forests, temporal trends in species  overyielding differ when considering above- versus belowground resource  acquisition strategies. Overyielding in stem growth decreased for  species with high light capture capacity but increased for those with  high soil resource acquisition capacity. Our results imply that a  diversity of species with different, and potentially complementary,  ecological strategies is beneficial for maintaining community  productivity over time in both grassland and forest ecosystems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"432\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-225-1024x432.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4689\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-225-1024x432.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-225-300x127.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-225-768x324.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-225-1536x648.png 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-225-2048x864.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> Fig.  1: Overview of how temporal changes of plant diversity effects on  community productivity are expected to be related to trait-dependent  shifts in species-level overyielding. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Reference:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Zheng, L., K. E. Barry, N. R. Guerrero-Ram\u00edrez, D. Craven, P. B. Reich, et al. 2024. Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding. Nature Communications 15:2078. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-46355-z\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-46355-z<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over time. Whether the strengthening of diversity effects is caused by temporal shifts in species-level overyielding (i.e., higher species-level productivity in diverse&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4690,"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\/4688"}],"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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}