TY - JOUR
T1 - Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome
AU - Staude, Ingmar R.
AU - Waller, Donald M.
AU - Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus
AU - Bjorkman, Anne D.
AU - Brunet, Jörg
AU - De Frenne, Pieter
AU - Hédl, Radim
AU - Jandt, Ute
AU - Lenoir, Jonathan
AU - Máliš, František
AU - Verheyen, Kris
AU - Wulf, Monika
AU - Pereira, Henrique M.
AU - Vangansbeke, Pieter
AU - Ortmann-Ajkai, Adrienne
AU - Pielech, Remigiusz
AU - Berki, Imre
AU - Chudomelová, Markéta
AU - Decocq, Guillaume
AU - Dirnböck, Thomas
AU - Durak, Tomasz
AU - Heinken, Thilo
AU - Jaroszewicz, Bogdan
AU - Kopecký, Martin
AU - Macek, Martin
AU - Malicki, Marek
AU - Naaf, Tobias
AU - Nagel, Thomas A.
AU - Petřík, Petr
AU - Reczyńska, Kamila
AU - Schei, Fride Høistad
AU - Schmidt, Wolfgang
AU - Standovár, Tibor
AU - Świerkosz, Krzysztof
AU - Teleki, Balázs
AU - Van Calster, Hans
AU - Vild, Ondřej
AU - Baeten, Lander
PY - 2020/4/13
Y1 - 2020/4/13
N2 - Biodiversity time series reveal global losses and accelerated redistributions of species, but no net loss in local species richness. To better understand how these patterns are linked, we quantify how individual species trajectories scale up to diversity changes using data from 68 vegetation resurvey studies of seminatural forests in Europe. Herb-layer species with small geographic ranges are being replaced by more widely distributed species, and our results suggest that this is due less to species abundances than to species nitrogen niches. Nitrogen deposition accelerates the extinctions of small-ranged, nitrogen-efficient plants and colonization by broadly distributed, nitrogen-demanding plants (including non-natives). Despite no net change in species richness at the spatial scale of a study site, the losses of small-ranged species reduce biome-scale (gamma) diversity. These results provide one mechanism to explain the directional replacement of small-ranged species within sites and thus explain patterns of biodiversity change across spatial scales.
AB - Biodiversity time series reveal global losses and accelerated redistributions of species, but no net loss in local species richness. To better understand how these patterns are linked, we quantify how individual species trajectories scale up to diversity changes using data from 68 vegetation resurvey studies of seminatural forests in Europe. Herb-layer species with small geographic ranges are being replaced by more widely distributed species, and our results suggest that this is due less to species abundances than to species nitrogen niches. Nitrogen deposition accelerates the extinctions of small-ranged, nitrogen-efficient plants and colonization by broadly distributed, nitrogen-demanding plants (including non-natives). Despite no net change in species richness at the spatial scale of a study site, the losses of small-ranged species reduce biome-scale (gamma) diversity. These results provide one mechanism to explain the directional replacement of small-ranged species within sites and thus explain patterns of biodiversity change across spatial scales.
U2 - 10.1038/s41559-020-1176-8
DO - 10.1038/s41559-020-1176-8
M3 - A1: Web of Science-article
SN - 2397-334X
JO - Nature Ecology and Evolution
JF - Nature Ecology and Evolution
ER -