Data from: Species richness effects on grassland recovery from drought depend on community productivity in a multisite experiment

  • Juergen Kreyling (Creator)
  • Jürgen Dengler (Creator)
  • Julia Walter (Creator)
  • Nikolay Velev (Creator)
  • Emin Ugurlu (Creator)
  • Desislava Sopotlieva (Creator)
  • Johannes Ransijn (Creator)
  • Catherine Picon-Cochard (Creator)
  • Ivan Nijs (Creator)
  • Pauline Hernandez (Creator)
  • Behlül Güler (Creator)
  • Philipp von Gillhaussen (Creator)
  • Hans J. De Boeck (Creator)
  • Juliette M.G. Bloor (Creator)
  • Sigi Berwaers (Creator)
  • Carl Beierkuhnlein (Creator)
  • Mohammed A.S. Arfin Khan (Creator)
  • Iva Apostolova (Creator)
  • Yasin Altan (Creator)
  • Michaela Zeiter (Creator)
  • Camilla Wellstein (Creator)
  • Marcelo Sternberg (Creator)
  • Andreas Stampfli (Creator)
  • Giandiego Campetella (Creator)
  • Sándor Bartha (Creator)
  • Michael Bahn (Creator)
  • Anke Jentsch (Creator)
  • Mohammed A.S. Arfin Khan (Creator)
  • Juliette M.G. Bloor (Creator)

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Biodiversity can buffer ecosystem functioning against extreme climatic events, but few experiments have explicitly tested this. Here, we present the first multisite biodiversity × drought manipulation experiment to examine drought resistance and recovery at five temperate and Mediterranean grassland sites. Aboveground biomass production declined by 30% due to experimental drought (standardised local extremity by rainfall exclusion for 72–98 consecutive days). Species richness did not affect resistance but promoted recovery. Recovery was only positively affected by species richness in low-productive communities, with most diverse communities even showing overcompensation. This positive diversity effect could be linked to asynchrony of species responses. Our results suggest that a more context-dependent view considering the nature of the climatic disturbance as well as the productivity of the studied system will help identify under which circumstances biodiversity promotes drought resistance or recovery. Stability of biomass production can generally be expected to decrease with biodiversity loss and climate change.,biomass_1.2biomass per mesocosm and harvest and species (or community if no species-specific values available)NDVINDVI data per mesocosm and date,
Date made available5 Sept 2018
PublisherDRYAD
  • Species richness effects on grassland recovery from drought depend on community productivity in a multisite experiment

    Kreyling, J., Dengler, J., Walter, J., Velev, N., Ugurlu, E., Sopotlieva, D., Ransijn, J., Picon-Cochard, C., Nijs, I., Hernandez, P., Güler, B., von Gillhaussen, P., De Boeck, H. J., Bloor, J. M. G., Berwaers, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Arfin Khan, M. A. S., Apostolova, I., Altan, Y. & Zeiter, M. & 7 others, Wellstein, C., Sternberg, M., Stampfli, A., Campetella, G., Bartha, S., Bahn, M. & Jentsch, A., 1 Nov 2017, In: Ecology Letters. 20, 11, p. 1405-1413 9 p.

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