%0 Journal Article %J Ecology Letters %D 2021 %T Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change %A Avolio, Meghan L. %A Komatsu, Kimberly J. %A Collins, Scott L. %A Grman, Emily %A Koerner, Sally E. %A Tredennick, Andrew T. %A Wilcox, Kevin R. %A Baer, Sara %A Boughton, Elizabeth H. %A Britton, Andrea J. %A Foster, Bryan %A Gough, Laura %A Hovenden, Mark %A Isbell, Forest %A Jentsch, Anke %A Johnson, David S. %A Knapp, Alan K. %A Kreyling, Juergen %A Langley, J. Adam %A Lortie, Christopher %A McCulley, Rebecca L. %A McLaren, Jennie R. %A Reich, Peter B. %A Seabloom, Eric W. %A Smith, Melinda D. %A Suding, Katharine N. %A Suttle, K. Blake %A Tognetti, Pedro M. %E Anderson, Marti %B Ecology Letters %V 24 %P 1892–1904 %8 sep %G eng %U https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.13824 %R 10.1111/ele.13824 %0 Journal Article %J Nature Communications %D 2020 %T General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales %A Hautier, Yann %A Zhang, Pengfei %A Loreau, Michel %A Wilcox, Kevin R. %A Seabloom, Eric W. %A Borer, Elizabeth T. %A Byrnes, Jarrett E. K. %A Koerner, Sally E. %A Komatsu, Kimberly J. %A Lefcheck, Jonathan S. %A Hector, Andy %A Adler, Peter B. %A Alberti, Juan %A Arnillas, Carlos A. %A Bakker, Jonathan D. %A Brudvig, Lars A. %A Bugalho, Miguel N. %A Cadotte, Marc %A Caldeira, Maria C. %A Carroll, Oliver %A Crawley, Mick %A Collins, Scott L. %A Daleo, Pedro %A Dee, Laura E. %A Eisenhauer, Nico %A Eskelinen, Anu %A Fay, Philip A. %A Gilbert, Benjamin %A Hansar, Amandine %A Isbell, Forest %A Knops, Johannes M. H. %A MacDougall, Andrew S. %A McCulley, Rebecca L. %A Moore, Joslin L. %A Morgan, John W. %A Mori, Akira S. %A Peri, Pablo L. %A Pos, Edwin T. %A Power, Sally A. %A Price, Jodi N. %A Reich, Peter B. %A Risch, Anita C. %A Roscher, Christiane %A Sankaran, Mahesh %A Schütz, Martin %A Smith, Melinda %A Stevens, Carly %A Tognetti, Pedro M. %A Virtanen, Risto %A Wardle, Glenda M. %A Wilfahrt, Peter A. %A Wang, Shaopeng %X Abstract Eutrophication is a widespread environmental change that usually reduces the stabilizing effect of plant diversity on productivity in local communities. Whether this effect is scale dependent remains to be elucidated. Here, we determine the relationship between plant diversity and temporal stability of productivity for 243 plant communities from 42 grasslands across the globe and quantify the effect of chronic fertilization on these relationships. Unfertilized local communities with more plant species exhibit greater asynchronous dynamics among species in response to natural environmental fluctuations, resulting in greater local stability (alpha stability). Moreover, neighborhood communities that have greater spatial variation in plant species composition within sites (higher beta diversity) have greater spatial asynchrony of productivity among communities, resulting in greater stability at the larger scale (gamma stability). Importantly, fertilization consistently weakens the contribution of plant diversity to both of these stabilizing mechanisms, thus diminishing the positive effect of biodiversity on stability at differing spatial scales. Our findings suggest that preserving grassland functional stability requires conservation of plant diversity within and among ecological communities. %B Nature Communications %V 11 %P 5375 %8 dec %G eng %U https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19252-4 %R 10.1038/s41467-020-19252-4 %0 Journal Article %J Global Change Biology %D 2018 %T Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments %A Langley, J. Adam %A Chapman, Samantha K. %A La Pierre, Kimberly J. %A Avolio, Meghan %A Bowman, William D. %A Johnson, David S. %A Isbell, Forest %A Wilcox, Kevin R. %A Foster, Bryan L. %A Hovenden, Mark J. %A Knapp, Alan K. %A Koerner, Sally E. %A Lortie, Christopher J. %A Megonigal, James P. %A Newton, Paul C. D. %A Reich, Peter B. %A Smith, Melinda D. %A Suttle, Kenwyn B. %A Tilman, David %B Global Change Biology %V 24 %P 5668–5679 %8 dec %G eng %U https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14442 %R 10.1111/gcb.14442 %0 Journal Article %J Ecology Letters %D 2017 %T Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities %A Wilcox, Kevin R. %A Tredennick, Andrew T. %A Koerner, Sally E. %A Grman, Emily %A Hallett, Lauren M. %A Avolio, Meghan L. %A La Pierre, Kimberly J. %A Houseman, Gregory R. %A Isbell, Forest %A Johnson, David Samuel %A Alatalo, Juha M. %A Baldwin, Andrew H. %A Bork, Edward W. %A Boughton, Elizabeth H. %A Bowman, William D. %A Britton, Andrea J. %A Cahill, James F. %A Collins, Scott L. %A Du, Guozhen %A Eskelinen, Anu %A Gough, Laura %A Jentsch, Anke %A Kern, Christel %A Klanderud, Kari %A Knapp, Alan K. %A Kreyling, Juergen %A Luo, Yiqi %A McLaren, Jennie R. %A Megonigal, Patrick %A Onipchenko, Vladimir %A Prevéy, Janet %A Price, Jodi N. %A Robinson, Clare H. %A Sala, Osvaldo E. %A Smith, Melinda D. %A Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. %A Souza, Lara %A Tilman, David %A White, Shannon R. %A Xu, Zhuwen %A Yahdjian, Laura %A Yu, Qiang %A Zhang, Pengfei %A Zhang, Yunhai %E Gurevitch, Jessica %B Ecology Letters %V 20 %P 1534–1545 %8 dec %G eng %U https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12861 %R 10.1111/ele.12861