TY - JOUR
T1 - Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels
AU - Sperandii, Marta Gaia
AU - Bazzichetto, Manuele
AU - Götzenberger, Lars
AU - Moretti, Marco
AU - Achury, Rafael
AU - Blüthgen, Nico
AU - Fischer, Markus
AU - Hölzel, Norbert
AU - Klaus, Valentin H.
AU - Kleinebecker, Till
AU - Neff, Felix
AU - Prati, Daniel
AU - Bolliger, Ralph
AU - Seibold, Sebastian
AU - Simons, Nadja K.
AU - Staab, Michael
AU - Weisser, Wolfgang W.
AU - de Bello, Francesco
AU - Gossner, Martin M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
PY - 2025/1/24
Y1 - 2025/1/24
N2 - Understanding how land use affects temporal stability is crucial to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Yet, the mechanistic links between land-use intensity and stability-driving mechanisms remain unclear, with functional traits likely playing a key role. Using 13 years of data from 300 sites in Germany, we tested whether and how trait-based community features mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers (compensatory dynamics, portfolio effect, and dominant species variability), within and across plant and arthropod communities. Trait-based plant features, especially the prevalence of acquisitive strategies along the leaf-economics spectrum, were the main land-use intensity mediators within and across taxonomic and trophic levels, consistently influencing dominant species variability. Functional diversity also mediated land-use intensity effects but played a lesser role. Our analysis discloses trait-based community features as key mediators of land-use effects on stability drivers, emphasizing the need to consider multi-trophic functional interactions to better understand complex ecosystem dynamics.
AB - Understanding how land use affects temporal stability is crucial to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Yet, the mechanistic links between land-use intensity and stability-driving mechanisms remain unclear, with functional traits likely playing a key role. Using 13 years of data from 300 sites in Germany, we tested whether and how trait-based community features mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers (compensatory dynamics, portfolio effect, and dominant species variability), within and across plant and arthropod communities. Trait-based plant features, especially the prevalence of acquisitive strategies along the leaf-economics spectrum, were the main land-use intensity mediators within and across taxonomic and trophic levels, consistently influencing dominant species variability. Functional diversity also mediated land-use intensity effects but played a lesser role. Our analysis discloses trait-based community features as key mediators of land-use effects on stability drivers, emphasizing the need to consider multi-trophic functional interactions to better understand complex ecosystem dynamics.
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U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.adp6445
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.adp6445
M3 - Article
C2 - 39854460
AN - SCOPUS:85216736058
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 11
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
IS - 4
M1 - eadp6445
ER -
