A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification

Margot Neyret (), Gaëtane Provost, Andrea Larissa Boesing, Florian D. Schneider, Dennis Baulechner, Joana Bergmann, Franciska T. Vries, Anna Maria Fiore-Donno, Stefan Geisen, Kezia Goldmann, Anna Merges, Ruslan A. Saifutdinov, Nadja K. Simons, Joseph A. Tobias, Andrey S. Zaitsev, Martin M. Gossner, Kirsten Jung, Ellen Kandeler, Jochen Krauss, Caterina Penone, Michael Schloter, Stefanie Schulz, Michael Staab, Volkmar Wolters, Antonios Apostolakis, Klaus Birkhofer, Steffen Boch, Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Ralph Bolliger, Michael Bonkowski, François Buscot, Kenneth Dumack, Markus Fischer, Huei Ying Gan, Johannes Heinze, Norbert Hölzel, Katharina John, Valentin H. Klaus, Till Kleinebecker, Sven Marhan, Jörg Müller, Swen C. Renner, Matthias C. Rillig, Noëlle V. Schenk, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, Sebastian Seibold, Stephanie A. Socher, Emily F. Solly, Miriam Teuscher, Mark Kleunen, Tesfaye Wubet and Peter Manning ()
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Margot Neyret: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Gaëtane Provost: ISVV, SAVE
Andrea Larissa Boesing: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Florian D. Schneider: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Dennis Baulechner: Justus Liebig University, Department of Animal Ecology
Joana Bergmann: Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
Franciska T. Vries: University of Amsterdam
Anna Maria Fiore-Donno: University of Cologne
Stefan Geisen: Wageningen University and Research
Kezia Goldmann: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Soil Ecology Department
Anna Merges: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Ruslan A. Saifutdinov: Russian Academy of Sciences
Nadja K. Simons: Technical University Darmstadt
Joseph A. Tobias: Imperial College London
Andrey S. Zaitsev: Justus Liebig University, Department of Animal Ecology
Martin M. Gossner: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Kirsten Jung: Ulm University
Ellen Kandeler: University of Hohenheim
Jochen Krauss: University of Würzburg
Caterina Penone: University of Bern
Michael Schloter: Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis
Stefanie Schulz: Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analysis
Michael Staab: Technical University Darmstadt
Volkmar Wolters: Justus Liebig University, Department of Animal Ecology
Antonios Apostolakis: Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
Klaus Birkhofer: Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
Steffen Boch: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Runa S. Boeddinghaus: University of Hohenheim
Ralph Bolliger: University of Bern
Michael Bonkowski: University of Cologne
François Buscot: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Soil Ecology Department
Kenneth Dumack: University of Cologne
Markus Fischer: University of Bern
Huei Ying Gan: Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments Tübingen (SHEP)
Johannes Heinze: Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Norbert Hölzel: University of Münster
Katharina John: Justus Liebig University, Department of Animal Ecology
Valentin H. Klaus: Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zürich
Till Kleinebecker: Justus Liebig University Giessen
Sven Marhan: University of Hohenheim
Jörg Müller: Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Swen C. Renner: Natural History Museum Vienna
Matthias C. Rillig: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology
Noëlle V. Schenk: University of Bern
Ingo Schöning: Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
Marion Schrumpf: Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
Sebastian Seibold: Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences
Stephanie A. Socher: Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Department Environment and Biodiversity
Emily F. Solly: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Computation Hydrosystems Department
Miriam Teuscher: University of Göttingen, Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use
Mark Kleunen: Taizhou University
Tesfaye Wubet: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle - Jena-
Peter Manning: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-23

Abstract: Abstract Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these strategies at the entire community level is unclear. Here, we combine trait data for >2800 above- and belowground taxa from 14 trophic guilds spanning a disturbance and resource availability gradient in German grasslands. The results indicate that most guilds consistently respond to these drivers through both direct and trophically mediated effects, resulting in a ‘slow-fast’ axis at the level of the entire community. Using 15 indicators of carbon and nutrient fluxes, biomass production and decomposition, we also show that fast trait communities are associated with faster rates of ecosystem functioning. These findings demonstrate that ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ strategies can be manifested at the level of whole communities, opening new avenues of ecosystem-level functional classification.

Date: 2024
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