Community assembly history alters relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions during restoration.

ABSTRACT: Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning depend on the processes structuring community assembly. However, predicting biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships based on community assembly remains challenging because assembly outcomes are often contingent on history and the consequences of history for ecosystem functions are poorly understood. In a grassland restoration experiment, we isolated the role of history for the relationships between plant biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions by initiating assembly in three different years, while controlling for all other aspects of community assembly. We found that two aspects of assembly history-establishment year and succession-altered species and trait community trajectories, which in turn altered net pr

SUBMITTER: Catano CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078356 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature