Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands.
Grasslands cover approximately a third of the Earth’s land surface and account for about a third of terrestrial carbon storage. Yet, we lack strong predictive models of grassland plant biomass, the primary source of carbon in grasslands. This lack of predictive ability may arise from the assumption...
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| author | Spohn, Marie Bagchi, Sumanta Bakker, Jonathan D. Borer, Elizabeth T. Carbutt, Clinton Catford, Jane A. Dickman, Chris R. Eisenhauer, Nico Eskelinen, Anu Hagenah, Nicole Peri, Pablo Luis Seabloom, Eric William |
| author_browse | Bagchi, Sumanta Bakker, Jonathan D. Borer, Elizabeth T. Carbutt, Clinton Catford, Jane A. Dickman, Chris R. Eisenhauer, Nico Eskelinen, Anu Hagenah, Nicole Peri, Pablo Luis Seabloom, Eric William Spohn, Marie |
| author_facet | Spohn, Marie Bagchi, Sumanta Bakker, Jonathan D. Borer, Elizabeth T. Carbutt, Clinton Catford, Jane A. Dickman, Chris R. Eisenhauer, Nico Eskelinen, Anu Hagenah, Nicole Peri, Pablo Luis Seabloom, Eric William |
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| description | Grasslands cover approximately a third of the Earth’s land surface and account for about a third of terrestrial carbon storage. Yet, we lack strong predictive models of grassland plant biomass, the primary source of carbon in grasslands. This lack of predictive ability may arise from the assumption of linear relationships between plant biomass and the environment and an underestimation of
interactions of environmental variables. Using data from 116 grasslands on six continents, we show unimodal relationships between plant biomass and ecosystem characteristics, such as mean annual precipitation and soil nitrogen. Further, we found that soil nitrogen and plant diversity interacted in their relationships with plant biomass, such that plant diversity and biomass were positively related at low levels of nitrogen and negatively at elevated levels of nitrogen. Our results show that it is critical to account for the interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass and several environmental variables to accurately include plant biomass in global vegetation and carbon models. |
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| spelling | INTA218132025-03-26T10:13:34Z Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. Spohn, Marie Bagchi, Sumanta Bakker, Jonathan D. Borer, Elizabeth T. Carbutt, Clinton Catford, Jane A. Dickman, Chris R. Eisenhauer, Nico Eskelinen, Anu Hagenah, Nicole Peri, Pablo Luis Seabloom, Eric William Pastures Biomass Biodiversity Carbon Capture and Storage Environmental Factors Precipitation Soil Nitrogen Pastizales Biomasa Biodiversidad Captura y Almacenamiento de Carbono Factores Ambientales Precipitación Atmosférica Suelo Nitrógeno Carbon Models Modelos de Carbono Grasslands cover approximately a third of the Earth’s land surface and account for about a third of terrestrial carbon storage. Yet, we lack strong predictive models of grassland plant biomass, the primary source of carbon in grasslands. This lack of predictive ability may arise from the assumption of linear relationships between plant biomass and the environment and an underestimation of interactions of environmental variables. Using data from 116 grasslands on six continents, we show unimodal relationships between plant biomass and ecosystem characteristics, such as mean annual precipitation and soil nitrogen. Further, we found that soil nitrogen and plant diversity interacted in their relationships with plant biomass, such that plant diversity and biomass were positively related at low levels of nitrogen and negatively at elevated levels of nitrogen. Our results show that it is critical to account for the interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass and several environmental variables to accurately include plant biomass in global vegetation and carbon models. EEA Santa Cruz Fil: Spohn, Marie. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Department of Soil and Environment; Suecia Fil: Bagchi, Sumanta. Indian Institute of Science. Centre for Ecological Sciences; India. Fil: Bakker, Jonathan D. University of Washington. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Estados Unidos. Fil: Borer, Elizabeth T. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Estados Unidos. Fil: Carbutt, Clinton. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife. Scientific Services; Sudáfrica Fil: Carbutt, Clinton. University of KwaZulu-Natal,Scottsville. School of Life Sciences; Sudáfrica. Fil: Catford, Jane A. King’s College London. Dept of Geography; Reino Unido Fil: Catford, Jane A. University of Melbourne. School of Agriculture, Food & Ecosystem Sciences; Australia. Fil: Catford, Jane A. The Australian National University. Fenner School of Environment & Society; Australia. Fil: Dickman, Chris R. University of Sydney. School of Life and Environmental Sciences; Australia. Fil: Eisenhauer, Nico. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Alemania Fil: Eisenhauer, Nico. Leipzig University. Institute of Biology; Alemania Fil: Eskelinen, Anu. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Alemania Fil: Eskelinen, Anu. University of Oulu. Ecology & Genetics; Finlandia Fil: Hagenah, Nicole. University of Pretoria. Research Institute. Department of Zoology and Entomology; Sudáfrica Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral; Argentina. Fil: Seabloom, Eric William. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; Estados Unidos. 2025-03-26T10:04:43Z 2025-03-26T10:04:43Z 2025-01-21 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/21813 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07518-w Spohn M.; Bagchi S.; Bakker J.D.; Borer E.T.; Carbutt C.; Catford J.A.; Dickman C.R.; Eisenhauer N.; Eskelinen A.; Hagenah N.; Hautier Y.; Koerner S.E.; Komatsu K.J.; Laanisto L.; Lekberg Y.; Martina J.P.; Martinson H.; Meelis P.; Peri P.L.; Risch A.C.; Smith N.G.; Stevens C.; Veen G.F.; Virtanen R.; Yahdjian L.; Young A.L.; Young H.S.; Seabloom E.W. (2025) Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. Communications Biology 8: 97. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07518-w 2399-3642 (online) https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07518-w eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Springer Nature Communications Biology 8 : 97. (January 2025) |
| spellingShingle | Pastures Biomass Biodiversity Carbon Capture and Storage Environmental Factors Precipitation Soil Nitrogen Pastizales Biomasa Biodiversidad Captura y Almacenamiento de Carbono Factores Ambientales Precipitación Atmosférica Suelo Nitrógeno Carbon Models Modelos de Carbono Spohn, Marie Bagchi, Sumanta Bakker, Jonathan D. Borer, Elizabeth T. Carbutt, Clinton Catford, Jane A. Dickman, Chris R. Eisenhauer, Nico Eskelinen, Anu Hagenah, Nicole Peri, Pablo Luis Seabloom, Eric William Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. |
| title | Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. |
| title_full | Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. |
| title_fullStr | Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. |
| title_short | Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. |
| title_sort | interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass abiotic factors and plant diversity in global grasslands |
| topic | Pastures Biomass Biodiversity Carbon Capture and Storage Environmental Factors Precipitation Soil Nitrogen Pastizales Biomasa Biodiversidad Captura y Almacenamiento de Carbono Factores Ambientales Precipitación Atmosférica Suelo Nitrógeno Carbon Models Modelos de Carbono |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/21813 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07518-w https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07518-w |
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