The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

Michael S. Crawford; Kathryn E. Barry; Adam T. Clark; Caroline E. Farrior; Jes Hines; Emma Ladouceur; Jeremy W. Lichstein; Isabelle Maréchaux; Felix May; Akira S. Mori; Björn Reineking; Lindsay A. Turnbull; Christian Wirth; Nadja Rüger; Xavier Morin

doi:10.1111/ele.13776

The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

Michael S. Crawford
, Kathryn E. Barry
, Adam T. Clark
, Caroline E. Farrior
, Jes Hines
, Emma Ladouceur
, Jeremy W. Lichstein
, Isabelle Maréchaux
, Felix May
, Akira S. Mori
, Björn Reineking
, Lindsay A. Turnbull
, Christian Wirth
, Nadja Rüger
, Xavier Morin (Editor)

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Abstract

Community composition is a primary determinant of how biodiversity change influences ecosystem functioning and, therefore, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF). We examine the consequences of community composition across six structurally realistic plant community models. We find that a positive correlation between species’ functioning in monoculture versus their dominance in mixture with regard to a specific function (the “function-dominance correlation”) generates a positive relationship between realised diversity and ecosystem functioning across species richness treatments. However, because realised diversity declines when few species dominate, a positive function-dominance correlation generates a negative relationship between realised diversity and ecosystem functioning within species richness treatments. Removing seed inflow strengthens the link between the function–dominance correlation and BEF relationships across species richness treatments but weakens it within them. These results suggest that changes in species’ identities in a local species pool may more strongly affect ecosystem functioning than changes in species richness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1762-1775
Number of pages	14
Journal	Ecology Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13776
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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Funding Information:
This paper is a product of the SimNet workshop funded by the FlexPool initiative (Grant 34600966)—the internal funding mechanism of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig, a research centre of the German Research Foundation (DFG–FZT 118, 202548816). We are grateful to Volker Grimm and Jonathan Chase for their helpful comments throughout the planning and execution of this project. KEB was funded by the iDiv FlexPool initiative (Grant 34600900). JL acknowledges sabbatical fellowship support from sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of iDiv (DFG–FZT 118, 202548816). IM acknowledges funding from ‘Investissement d'Avenir’ managed by Agence National de la Recherche (CEBA, ref. ANR‐10‐LABX‐25‐01; TULIP, ref. ANR‐10‐LABX‐0041). BR acknowledges funding from EU FP7 ERA‐NET Sumforest (Grant ANR‐16‐SUMF‐0002). NR acknowledges support by a research grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (RU 1536/3‐1). MC and NR were supported by the iDiv flexpool initiative (Grants 34600967 and 34600970). Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.

Funding Information:
This paper is a product of the SimNet workshop funded by the FlexPool initiative (Grant 34600966)?the internal funding mechanism of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, a research centre of the German Research Foundation (DFG?FZT 118, 202548816). We are grateful to Volker Grimm and Jonathan Chase for their helpful comments throughout the planning and execution of this project. KEB was funded by the iDiv FlexPool initiative (Grant 34600900). JL acknowledges sabbatical fellowship support from sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of iDiv (DFG?FZT 118, 202548816). IM acknowledges funding from ?Investissement d'Avenir? managed by Agence National de la Recherche (CEBA, ref. ANR-10-LABX-25-01; TULIP, ref. ANR-10-LABX-0041). BR acknowledges funding from EU FP7 ERA-NET Sumforest (Grant ANR-16-SUMF-0002). NR acknowledges support by a research grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (RU 1536/3-1). MC and NR were supported by the iDiv flexpool initiative (Grants 34600967 and 34600970). Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.

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© 2021 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Keywords

coexistence
community assembly
function–dominance correlation
model intercomparison
plant diversity
productivity
seed dispersal

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Crawford, M. S., Barry, K. E., Clark, A. T., Farrior, C. E., Hines, J., Ladouceur, E., Lichstein, J. W., Maréchaux, I., May, F., Mori, A. S., Reineking, B., Turnbull, L. A., Wirth, C., Rüger, N., & Morin, X. (Ed.) (2021). The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters, 24(9), 1762-1775. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13776

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