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{"title":"Biodiversity of soil biota and plants stabilises ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing number of global change factors","authors":"Bing Wang, Yuhui Meng, Shangwu Deng, Xuan Zhou, Shuaifei Wang, Ying Wu, Liji Wu, Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>Increasing the number of global change factors (GCFs) strongly influences biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, the specific mechanisms through which biodiversity, especially soil biodiversity, stabilise ecosystem multifunctionality under rapidly growing GCFs remain elusive.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Here, we implemented a multifaceted approach involving multiple GCFs (nitrogen addition, phosphorus addition and soil acidification) in the Inner Mongolia grassland to elucidate the impact of species diversity, community composition and temporal asynchrony within plant and soil biota on multifunctional stability.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Our findings showed that with an increasing number of GCFs, plant and soil biodiversity, ecosystem multifunctionality and multifunctional stability broadly decreased. The negative effects of GCFs on multifunctional stability were primarily associated with the community asynchrony of soil nematodes and plants, while the negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality were mainly associated with the community composition of soil fungi. Additionally, the indirect influence of diversities within plants and soil biota on multifunctionality and its stability was manifested through their effects on the community composition or asynchrony.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis.</jats:italic> Our results provide new empirical evidence that soil biodiversity is at least as important as plant biodiversity in determining multifunctionality and multifunctional stability under multiple GCFs. These findings highlight the importance of conserving soil biodiversity and integrating it into conservation efforts to maintain ecosystem stability in the face of increasing GCFs.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143857502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neglecting non-vascular plants leads to underestimation of grassland plant diversity loss under experimental nutrient addition","authors":"Risto Virtanen, Elizabeth T. Borer, Mick Crawley, Anne Ebeling, W. Stanley Harpole, Anita C. Risch, Christiane Roscher, Martin Schütz, Eric W. Seabloom, Anu Eskelinen","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70052","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;h2&gt;1 INTRODUCTION&lt;/h2&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;Ecological theory predicts that nutrient addition should cause plant diversity loss (Tilman, &lt;span&gt;1982&lt;/span&gt;), and this has been shown experimentally in many studies of plant communities worldwide (Borer, Seabloom, et al., &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;; Harpole et al., &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;; Seabloom, Batzer, et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Furthermore, theoretical and empirical work shows that nutrient-induced losses in plant diversity may be mitigated when herbivores increase light at ground level (Borer, Seabloom, et al., &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;; Olff &amp; Ritchie, &lt;span&gt;1998&lt;/span&gt;). Experimental tests of drivers of plant diversity in terrestrial systems typically focus on vascular plants (VP), while non-vascular plants (NVP; here bryophytes), are usually ignored, even though NVPs can commonly represent 20%–40% of total plant diversity in grassland communities (Dengler et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Klaus &amp; Müller, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;; Löbel et al., &lt;span&gt;2006&lt;/span&gt;; Lyons et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Tansley &amp; Adamson, &lt;span&gt;1925&lt;/span&gt;). It is therefore not known whether the response of NVP diversity to nutrient addition or grazing is consistent with that of VPs, in which case VP responses could predict NVP responses. However, NVPs could react differently (e.g. decrease to a greater or lesser degree), in which case their inclusion would refine our understanding of plant diversity loss in terrestrial systems.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;In grassland ecosystems, NVPs consist mainly of two clades of land plants (Bryophyta (mosses) and Marchantiophyta (liverworts)) that contribute to many ecosystem functions and properties. Bryophytes often make up a large proportion of above-ground biomass (Boch et al., &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; Hejcman et al., &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;; Wielgolaski, &lt;span&gt;1972&lt;/span&gt;), regulate the microclimate (Jaroszynska et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;), hydrology (Michel et al., &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;), carbon and nutrient cycling (O'Neill, &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;; Turetsky, &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;), nitrogen fixation (Lindo et al., &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;), and affect seed germination of native and exotic vascular plants (Dollery et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), soil micro-organism diversity (Xiao et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) and soil multifunctionality (Xiao et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). Therefore, the presence and diversity of NVPs in terrestrial systems can have far-reaching ecological repercussions even in VP-dominated ecosystems. Important differences between NVPs and VPs, which may affect their ecological role, include that NVPs are an order-of-magnitude shorter than VPs, lack efficient conducting tissues, roots and stomata, and have relatively low photosynthetic rates (Rydin, &lt;span&gt;2009&lt;/span&gt;). Their small stature makes NVPs poor competitors for light, for which reason NVPs likely experience higher species loss rates than VPs, when increased nutrient supply intensifies competition for light (Rydin, &lt;span&gt;2009&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;A handful of empirical studies over the past few decades","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"265 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143846650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive","authors":"Arielle Biro, Michelle Y. Wong, Jane M. Lucas, Sarah A. Batterman, A. Carla Staver","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no conflict of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143846651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking leaf economic spectrum to floral resources along an environmental gradient","authors":"Edy Fantinato, Sabrina Manente, Edoardo Gastaldi, Andrea Menegazzo, Francesco Presotto, Giovanni Scapinello, Nicolò Toniolo, Leonardo Lorenzato, Gabriella Buffa","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70051","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;h2&gt;1 INTRODUCTION&lt;/h2&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;Among the functional traits of plants, leaf traits are often used to evaluate adaptations to abiotic and biotic factors (Lavorel &amp; Garnier, &lt;span&gt;2002&lt;/span&gt;). Several theories, such as the CSR strategy (Grime et al., &lt;span&gt;1997&lt;/span&gt;; Pierce et al., &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) and the leaf economic spectrum (Wright et al., &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;), have been developed to explain the main axes of variation in leaf traits. The primary axis describes resource acquisition strategies, ranging from fast-growing and short-lived species (acquisitive) to slow-growing and long-lived species (conservative). This gradient reflects a trade-off between traits that promote a high net assimilation rate per unit of leaf mass and traits that support a long leaf lifespan (Wright et al., &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;). In addition to this axis, leaf size is recognised as a second, independent dimension of trait variability (Pierce et al., &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;Beyond leaf traits, studies have increasingly focused on understanding how other plant traits, such as below-ground and reproductive traits, relate to leaf traits (e.g. E-Vojtkó et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Weemstra et al., &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;). Plants are shaped by complex interactions between abiotic and biotic factors across the ecology–evolution continuum (Opedal, &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). The integration of multiple plant traits influenced by these factors provides a more holistic understanding of plant strategies (Ciccarelli et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) and enables the identification of predictors for rapid functional characterisation (Smart et al., &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;Among reproductive traits, floral traits exhibit greater diversity than leaf traits, reflecting the wide range of functions associated with flowers (Roddy et al., &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Floral traits differ significantly from leaf traits in terms of water transport capacity, stomata presence, vein density and mesophyll porosity (Roddy et al., &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;; Schreel et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). This has led to the hypothesis that leaf and floral traits may evolve under different selection pressures (E-Vojtkó et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Roddy et al., &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;). However, while leaf traits are often assumed to be influenced by abiotic factors such as resource availability and floral traits by biotic factors such as pollinators, both leaf and floral traits can be influenced by a combination of abiotic and biotic factors (e.g. Descamps et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;), suggesting that evolutionary pressures on these traits are not entirely independent.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;This applies in particular to pollen and nectar, the most common rewards offered by flowering plants to their pollinators, which are influenced by both abiotic and biotic factors (Descamps et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Although pollen plays a central role in attracting pollinators (Fantinato et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;), it is still uncertain whethe","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143846649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lianas reduce tree height with negative consequences for carbon storage and growth estimates","authors":"Xingyan Cao, Frieke Van Coillie, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Kasper Coppieters, Barbara D'hont, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Geertje van der Heijden, Hans Verbeeck, Félicien Meunier","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143846442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Macroclimatic niche similarity and species relatedness shift their influence on species co‐occurrence in bryophyte forest communities across scales","authors":"Fernando Hurtado, João Gonçalves, Helena Hespanhol, Cristina Ronquillo, Belén Estébanez, Pedro Aragón, Nagore G. Medina, Joaquín Hortal","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>The processes driving species co‐occurrence across scales are poorly understood. Bryophytes are especially interesting in this respect because, while they disperse over long distances and have broad distributions, they are particularly affected by local conditions due to their small size.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>We investigated the relationship between pairwise species associations within epiphytic bryophytes and their macroclimatic niche similarities and taxonomic relatedness at four scales (global, regional, habitat and microhabitat). We used community data for 2000 trees from 107 forests in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, and global occurrences for the 33 species with broad distributions, to calculate pairwise co‐occurrence at each scale and bioclimatic niche similarity. We also obtained taxonomic distance matrices from the bibliography as a proxy for pairwise phylogenetic relatedness between species.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Co‐occurrence relates to macroclimatic niche similarity at all scales, but this relationship decreases towards smaller scales. Taxonomic affinity was also a good indicator of the pairwise co‐occurrence not explained by macroclimatic niche similarity at the finest scales. Interestingly, at all scales, most pairwise relationships are positive or neutral rather than negative, although the direction of approximately 7% of these relationships shifts from positive at the microhabitat scale to negative at the regional scale. Macroclimatic requirements are progressively less important for species coexistence as scale diminishes, probably due to the effect of unmeasured local interactions, community‐level processes, and microclimatic variations.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis</jats:italic>. Our results highlight that positive interactions may be at least as important as negative ones, if not more, for the coexistence of bryophyte species across scales. They also underscore that co‐occurrence patterns may shift across scales, and the critical role of both macro‐ and microenvironmental conditions in shaping the life strategies and persistence of local populations of a plant group with population dynamics characterized by extensive geographic distributions. The implications of these findings go beyond their relevance for bryophyte ecology, challenging the prevailing assumption that limiting similarity processes primarily shape ecological communities.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Primary succession and plant functional traits on an oceanic island","authors":"Rüdiger Otto, Francisco Cabrera Rodríguez, Julian Schrader, Natalia Sierra Cornejo, Martha Paola Barajas Barbosa, Holger Kreft, Dagmar Hanz, Severin D. H. Irl, Amanda Ratier Backes, José María Fernández-Palacios","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no conflict of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143832334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Foliar fungal pathogen inhibition increases ecosystem carbon sequestration independently of nitrogen enrichment in a Tibetan alpine meadow","authors":"Fuwei Wang, Xuebin Yan, Mengqian Wang, Mengdi Luan, Xiaoyi Wang, Xin Li, Peng Wang, Xianhui Zhou, Guozhen Du, Miaojun Ma, Chenglong Ye, Hui Guo","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no competing interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143832149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above- and below-ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species","authors":"Linjing Ren, Wen-Yong Guo, Yanlong He, Xiuzhen Li, Carla Lambertini, Dan Yang, Franziska Eller, Hans Brix","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143832150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cross-scale effects of habitat fragmentation on local biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in a fragmented grassland landscape","authors":"Yongzhi Yan, Zhimin Qi, Qing Zhang","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no conflict of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143827191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}