Trait-based filtering mediates the effects of realistic biodiversity losses on ecosystem functioning.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity losses are a major driver of global changes in ecosystem functioning. While most studies of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning have examined randomized species losses, trait-based filtering associated with species-specific vulnerability to drivers of diversity loss can strongly influence how ecosystem functioning responds to declining biodiversity. Moreover, the responses of ecosystem functioning to diversity loss may be mediated by environmental variability interacting with the suite of traits remaining in depauperate communities. We do not yet understand how communities resulting from realistic diversity losses (filtered by response traits) influence ecosystem functioning (via effect traits of the remaining community), especially under variable e

SUBMITTER: Wolf AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8256034 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature