@article{ba2a5e6cd58d4cd2bfa86275b294cf6e,
title = "Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication",
abstract = "Eutrophication usually impacts grassland biodiversity, community composition, and biomass production, but its impact on the stability of these community aspects is unclear. One challenge is that stability has many facets that can be tightly correlated (low dimensionality) or highly disparate (high dimensionality). Using standardized experiments in 55 grassland sites from a globally distributed experiment (NutNet), we quantify the effects of nutrient addition on five facets of stability (temporal invariability, resistance during dry and wet growing seasons, recovery after dry and wet growing seasons), measured on three community aspects (aboveground biomass, community composition, and species richness). Nutrient addition reduces the temporal invariability and resistance of species richness and community composition during dry and wet growing seasons, but does not affect those of biomass. Different stability measures are largely uncorrelated under both ambient and eutrophic conditions, indicating consistently high dimensionality. Harnessing the dimensionality of ecological stability provides insights for predicting grassland responses to global environmental change.",
author = "Qingqing Chen and Shaopeng Wang and Borer, {Elizabeth T.} and Bakker, {Jonathan D.} and Seabloom, {Eric W.} and Harpole, {W. Stanley} and Nico Eisenhauer and Ylva Lekberg and Buckley, {Yvonne M.} and Catford, {Jane A.} and Christiane Roscher and Ian Donohue and Power, {Sally A.} and Pedro Daleo and Anne Ebeling and Knops, {Johannes M.H.} and Martina, {Jason P.} and Anu Eskelinen and Morgan, {John W.} and Risch, {Anita C.} and Caldeira, {Maria C.} and Bugalho, {Miguel N.} and Risto Virtanen and Barrio, {Isabel C.} and Yujie Niu and Anke Jentsch and Stevens, {Carly J.} and Gruner, {Daniel S.} and MacDougall, {Andrew S.} and Juan Alberti and Yann Hautier",
note = "Funding Information: We thank researchers from the NutNet who contributed data to our analysis but are not listed as authors (supplementary Table ). We thank the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for hosting project data and the Institute on the Environment for hosting Network meetings. Nitrogen fertilizer was donated to NutNet by Crop Production Services, Loveland, CO. This experiment is funded by individual researchers at the site scale. To Companhia das Lezirias for providing access to the study site. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, Springer Nature Limited.",
year = "2023",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1038/s41467-023-42081-0",
language = "English",
volume = "14",
journal = "Nature Communications",
issn = "2041-1723",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "1",
}