Colonization resistance and establishment success along gradients of functional and phylogenetic diversity in experimental plant communities
In: Journal of Ecology, Jg. 107 (2019-08-19), S. 2090-2104
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Functional and phylogenetic diversity (FD and PD respectively) of the resident community are expected to exert a key role in community resistance to colonization by surrounding species, and their establishment success. However, few studies have explored this topic experimentally or evaluated the interactive effects of these diversity measures. We implemented a diversity experiment to disentangle the role of FD and PD by sowing mixtures of 6 species, drawn from a pool of 19 species naturally coexisting in central European mesic meadows. The mixtures were designed to cover four independent combinations of high and low FD and PD. Species covers were estimated in spring and late summer over two growing seasons. We then assessed the establishment success of colonizers as a function of their mean traits and phylogenetic distance to the resident (i.e. sown) communities, as well as the resistance of the resident communities to natural colonizers as a function of their functional and phylogenetic structure. Results generally indicated a temporal shift regarding which trait values made a colonizer successful, from an acquisitive strategy in early stages to a more conservative trait syndrome in later stages. FD decreased community resistance to natural colonization. However, PD tempered this effect: with high PD, FD was not significant, suggesting complementary information between these two components of biodiversity. On average, colonizing species were more functionally distant from the resident species in sown communities with high functional diversity, i.e. those that were more colonized. Synthesis. Our results confirm an interplay between FD and PD during community assembly processes, namely resistance to colonizers, suggesting that these two descriptors of biodiversity only partially overlap in their contribution to the overall ecological structure of a community. The hypothesis that higher FD increases resistance through a more complete use of resources was challenged. Results rather suggested that greater FD could provide an unsaturated functional trait space allowing functionally unique species to occupy it.
The study was supported by Czech Science Foundation grant GA16‐15012S. C.P.C. was supported by a Marie Curie Intra‐European Fellowship within the European Commission 7th Framework Programme (TANDEM; project 626392) and the Estonian Research Council (project PSG293). E.V. was funded by the 2017 program for attracting and retaining talent of Comunidad de Madrid (no. 2017‐T2/AMB‐5406).
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Colonization resistance and establishment success along gradients of functional and phylogenetic diversity in experimental plant communities
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Blažek, Petr ; Lepš, Jan ; Orbán, Ildikó ; Dvořáková, Hana ; E-Vojtkó, Anna ; Galland, Thomas ; Götzenberger, Lars ; Francesco de Bello ; Lanta, Vojtěch ; Lussu, Michele ; Valencia, Enrique ; Carmona, Carlos P. ; Adeux, Guillaume ; Puy, Javier ; Czech Science Foundation ; Commission, European ; Estonian Research Council ; Comunidad de Madrid ; E‐Vojtkó, Anna ; Puy, J. ; Lanta, Vojtech ; Lepš, J. ; Bello, Francesco de ; Götzenberger, L. ; Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences ; Palacky University Olomouc ; Institute of Botany ; Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS) ; Agroécologie [Dijon] ; Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement ; Institute of Life Sciences of Sant’Anna [Pisa] ; Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant'Anna [Pisa] (SSSUP) ; Institute of Ecology and Botany ; MTA Centre for Ecological Research ; Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) ; Università di Cagliari ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC) ; University of Tartu ; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [Madrid] (URJC) ; Czech Science FoundationGrant Agency of the Czech Republic [GA16-15012S] ; European CommissionEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre [626392, PSG293, 2017-T2] ; Galland, Thomas [0000-0003-0883-8871] ; Adeux, Guillaume [0000-0003-0903-391X] ; E‐Vojtkó, Anna [0000-0001-6370-680X] ; Orbán, Ildikó [0000-0003-1547-675X] ; Lussu, Michele [0000-0002-1313-4732] ; Puy, J. [0000-0002-6422-2791] ; Blažek, Petr [0000-0002-0901-4578] ; Lanta, Vojtech [0000-0003-4484-3838] ; Lepš, J.[0000-0002-4822-7429] ; Bello, Francesco de [0000-0001-9202-8198] ; Carmona, Carlos P. [0000-0001-6935-4913] ; Valencia, Enrique [0000-0003-3359-0759] ; Götzenberger, L. [0000-0003-3040-2900] |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of Ecology, Jg. 107 (2019-08-19), S. 2090-2104 |
Veröffentlichung: | Wiley, 2019 |
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ISSN: | 1365-2745 (print) ; 0022-0477 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1111/1365-2745.13246 |
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