Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands
Nutrient enrichment typically causes local plant diversity declines. A common but untested expectation is that nutrient enrichment also reduces variation in nutrient conditions among localities and selects for a smaller pool of species, causing greater diversity declines at larger than local scales...
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| author | Chen, Qingqing Blowes, Shane A. Harpole, William Stanley Ladouceur, Emma Borer, Elizabeth T. MacDougall, Andrew S. Martina, Jason P. Bakker, Jonathan D. Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano Seabloom, Eric William Peri, Pablo Luis Chase, Jonathan M. |
| author_browse | Bakker, Jonathan D. Blowes, Shane A. Borer, Elizabeth T. Chase, Jonathan M. Chen, Qingqing Harpole, William Stanley Ladouceur, Emma MacDougall, Andrew S. Martina, Jason P. Peri, Pablo Luis Seabloom, Eric William Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano |
| author_facet | Chen, Qingqing Blowes, Shane A. Harpole, William Stanley Ladouceur, Emma Borer, Elizabeth T. MacDougall, Andrew S. Martina, Jason P. Bakker, Jonathan D. Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano Seabloom, Eric William Peri, Pablo Luis Chase, Jonathan M. |
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| description | Nutrient enrichment typically causes local plant diversity declines. A common but untested expectation is that nutrient enrichment also reduces variation in nutrient conditions among localities and selects for a smaller pool of species, causing greater diversity declines at larger than local scales and thus biotic homogenization. Here we apply a framework that links changes in species richness across scales to changes in the numbers of spatially restricted and widespread species for a standardized nutrient addition experiment across 72 grasslands on six continents. Overall, we find proportionally similar species loss at local and larger scales, suggesting similar declines of spatially restricted and widespread species, and no biotic homogenization after 4 years and up to 14 years of treatment. These patterns of diversity changes are generally consistent across species groups. Thus, nutrient enrichment poses threats to plant diversity, including for widespread species that are often critical for ecosystem functions. |
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| spelling | INTA224922025-06-12T11:42:52Z Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands Chen, Qingqing Blowes, Shane A. Harpole, William Stanley Ladouceur, Emma Borer, Elizabeth T. MacDougall, Andrew S. Martina, Jason P. Bakker, Jonathan D. Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano Seabloom, Eric William Peri, Pablo Luis Chase, Jonathan M. Pastures Species Diversity Nutrients Species Richness Nutrient Management Ecosystems Pastizales Diversidad de Especies Nutrientes Riqueza Específica Manejo de Nutrientes Ecosistemas Adición de Nutrients Diversidad Vegetal Enriquecimiento de Nutrients Nutrientes del Suelo a Nivel Mundial Adding Nutrients Plant Diversity Nutrient Enrichment Soil Nutrients Globally Nutrient enrichment typically causes local plant diversity declines. A common but untested expectation is that nutrient enrichment also reduces variation in nutrient conditions among localities and selects for a smaller pool of species, causing greater diversity declines at larger than local scales and thus biotic homogenization. Here we apply a framework that links changes in species richness across scales to changes in the numbers of spatially restricted and widespread species for a standardized nutrient addition experiment across 72 grasslands on six continents. Overall, we find proportionally similar species loss at local and larger scales, suggesting similar declines of spatially restricted and widespread species, and no biotic homogenization after 4 years and up to 14 years of treatment. These patterns of diversity changes are generally consistent across species groups. Thus, nutrient enrichment poses threats to plant diversity, including for widespread species that are often critical for ecosystem functions. EEA Santa Cruz, INTA Fil: Chen, Qingqing. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Alemania Fil: Chen, Qingqing. Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Görlitz; Alemania Fil: Blowes, Shane A. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Alemania. Fil: Blowes, Shane A. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Department of Computer Science; Alemania Fil: Harpole, William Stanley. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Alemania Fil: Harpole, William Stanley. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. Department of Physiological Diversity; Alemania Fil: Harpole, William Stanley. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Alemania Fil: Ladouceur, Emma. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Alemania Fil: Ladouceur, Emma. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Department of Computer Science; Alemania Fil: Ladouceur, Emma. University of Prince Edward Island. Department of Biology; Canadá. Fil: Ladouceur, Emma. University of Prince Edward Island. Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation; Canadá. Fil: Ladouceur, Emma. University of Prince Edward Island. School of Climate Change and Adaptation; Canadá Fil: Borer, Elizabeth T. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Estados Unidos Fil: MacDougall, Andrew S. University of Guelph. Department of Integrative Biology; Canadá. Fil: Martina, Jason P. Texas State University. Department of Biology; Estados Unidos Fil: Bakker, Jonathan D. University of Washington. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Estados Unidos Fil: Tognetti, Pedro M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; Argentina. Fil: Tognetti, Pedro M. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; Argentina. Fil: Tognetti, Pedro M. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Suiza Fil: Seabloom, Eric William. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Estados Unidos Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fil: Chase, Jonathan M. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Alemania Fil: Chase, Jonathan M. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Institute of Computer Science; Alemania 2025-06-04T14:06:19Z 2025-06-04T14:06:19Z 2025-05-27 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22492 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59166-7 Chen Q.; Blowes S.A.; Harpole W.S.; Ladouceur E.; Borer E.T.; Macdougall A.; Peri P.L.; et al. (2025) Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands. Nature Communications 16: e4903. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7 2041-1723 (online) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7 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 Nature Communications 16 : e4903. (May 2025) |
| spellingShingle | Pastures Species Diversity Nutrients Species Richness Nutrient Management Ecosystems Pastizales Diversidad de Especies Nutrientes Riqueza Específica Manejo de Nutrientes Ecosistemas Adición de Nutrients Diversidad Vegetal Enriquecimiento de Nutrients Nutrientes del Suelo a Nivel Mundial Adding Nutrients Plant Diversity Nutrient Enrichment Soil Nutrients Globally Chen, Qingqing Blowes, Shane A. Harpole, William Stanley Ladouceur, Emma Borer, Elizabeth T. MacDougall, Andrew S. Martina, Jason P. Bakker, Jonathan D. Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano Seabloom, Eric William Peri, Pablo Luis Chase, Jonathan M. Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands |
| title | Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands |
| title_full | Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands |
| title_fullStr | Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands |
| title_short | Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands |
| title_sort | local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands |
| topic | Pastures Species Diversity Nutrients Species Richness Nutrient Management Ecosystems Pastizales Diversidad de Especies Nutrientes Riqueza Específica Manejo de Nutrientes Ecosistemas Adición de Nutrients Diversidad Vegetal Enriquecimiento de Nutrients Nutrientes del Suelo a Nivel Mundial Adding Nutrients Plant Diversity Nutrient Enrichment Soil Nutrients Globally |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22492 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59166-7 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7 |
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