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Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs

In peatland ecosystems, plant communities mediate a globally significant carbon store. The effects of global environmental change on plant assemblages are expected to be a factor in determining how ecosystem functions such as carbon uptake will respond. Using vegetation data from 56 Sphagnum-dominat...

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Autores principales: Robroek, Bjorn J. M., Jassey, Vincent E. J., Payne, Richard J., Martí, Magalí, Bragazza, Luca, Bleeker, Albert, Buttler, Alexandre, Caporn, Simon J. M., Dise, Nancy B., Kattge, Jens, Zając, Katarzyna, Svensson, Bo H., van Ruijven, Jasper, Verhoeven, Jos T. A.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29079831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01350-5
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author Robroek, Bjorn J. M.
Jassey, Vincent E. J.
Payne, Richard J.
Martí, Magalí
Bragazza, Luca
Bleeker, Albert
Buttler, Alexandre
Caporn, Simon J. M.
Dise, Nancy B.
Kattge, Jens
Zając, Katarzyna
Svensson, Bo H.
van Ruijven, Jasper
Verhoeven, Jos T. A.
author_facet Robroek, Bjorn J. M.
Jassey, Vincent E. J.
Payne, Richard J.
Martí, Magalí
Bragazza, Luca
Bleeker, Albert
Buttler, Alexandre
Caporn, Simon J. M.
Dise, Nancy B.
Kattge, Jens
Zając, Katarzyna
Svensson, Bo H.
van Ruijven, Jasper
Verhoeven, Jos T. A.
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description In peatland ecosystems, plant communities mediate a globally significant carbon store. The effects of global environmental change on plant assemblages are expected to be a factor in determining how ecosystem functions such as carbon uptake will respond. Using vegetation data from 56 Sphagnum-dominated peat bogs across Europe, we show that in these ecosystems plant species aggregate into two major clusters that are each defined by shared response to environmental conditions. Across environmental gradients, we find significant taxonomic turnover in both clusters. However, functional identity and functional redundancy of the community as a whole remain unchanged. This strongly suggests that in peat bogs, species turnover across environmental gradients is restricted to functionally similar species. Our results demonstrate that plant taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled, which may allow these peat bogs to maintain ecosystem functioning when subject to future environmental change.
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spelling pubmed-56600832017-10-31 Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs Robroek, Bjorn J. M. Jassey, Vincent E. J. Payne, Richard J. Martí, Magalí Bragazza, Luca Bleeker, Albert Buttler, Alexandre Caporn, Simon J. M. Dise, Nancy B. Kattge, Jens Zając, Katarzyna Svensson, Bo H. van Ruijven, Jasper Verhoeven, Jos T. A. Nat Commun Article In peatland ecosystems, plant communities mediate a globally significant carbon store. The effects of global environmental change on plant assemblages are expected to be a factor in determining how ecosystem functions such as carbon uptake will respond. Using vegetation data from 56 Sphagnum-dominated peat bogs across Europe, we show that in these ecosystems plant species aggregate into two major clusters that are each defined by shared response to environmental conditions. Across environmental gradients, we find significant taxonomic turnover in both clusters. However, functional identity and functional redundancy of the community as a whole remain unchanged. This strongly suggests that in peat bogs, species turnover across environmental gradients is restricted to functionally similar species. Our results demonstrate that plant taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled, which may allow these peat bogs to maintain ecosystem functioning when subject to future environmental change. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5660083/ /pubmed/29079831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01350-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Robroek, Bjorn J. M.
Jassey, Vincent E. J.
Payne, Richard J.
Martí, Magalí
Bragazza, Luca
Bleeker, Albert
Buttler, Alexandre
Caporn, Simon J. M.
Dise, Nancy B.
Kattge, Jens
Zając, Katarzyna
Svensson, Bo H.
van Ruijven, Jasper
Verhoeven, Jos T. A.
Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs
title Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs
title_full Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs
title_fullStr Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs
title_full_unstemmed Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs
title_short Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs
title_sort taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in european peat bogs
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29079831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01350-5
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