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Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity
Temporal shifts to drier climates impose environmental stresses on plant communities that may result in community reassembly and threatened ecosystem services, but also may trigger self-organization in spatial patterns of biota and resources, which act to relax these stresses. The complex relationsh...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8497052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34570698 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73819 |
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author | Bera, Bidesh K Tzuk, Omer Bennett, Jamie JR Meron, Ehud |
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description | Temporal shifts to drier climates impose environmental stresses on plant communities that may result in community reassembly and threatened ecosystem services, but also may trigger self-organization in spatial patterns of biota and resources, which act to relax these stresses. The complex relationships between these counteracting processes – community reassembly and spatial self-organization – have hardly been studied. Using a spatio-temporal model of dryland plant communities and a trait-based approach, we study the response of such communities to increasing water-deficit stress. We first show that spatial patterning acts to reverse shifts from fast-growing species to stress-tolerant species, as well as to reverse functional-diversity loss. We then show that spatial self-organization buffers the impact of further stress on community structure. Finally, we identify multistability ranges of uniform and patterned community states and use them to propose forms of non-uniform ecosystem management that integrate the need for provisioning ecosystem services with the need to preserve community structure. |
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spelling | pubmed-84970522021-10-08 Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity Bera, Bidesh K Tzuk, Omer Bennett, Jamie JR Meron, Ehud eLife Ecology Temporal shifts to drier climates impose environmental stresses on plant communities that may result in community reassembly and threatened ecosystem services, but also may trigger self-organization in spatial patterns of biota and resources, which act to relax these stresses. The complex relationships between these counteracting processes – community reassembly and spatial self-organization – have hardly been studied. Using a spatio-temporal model of dryland plant communities and a trait-based approach, we study the response of such communities to increasing water-deficit stress. We first show that spatial patterning acts to reverse shifts from fast-growing species to stress-tolerant species, as well as to reverse functional-diversity loss. We then show that spatial self-organization buffers the impact of further stress on community structure. Finally, we identify multistability ranges of uniform and patterned community states and use them to propose forms of non-uniform ecosystem management that integrate the need for provisioning ecosystem services with the need to preserve community structure. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8497052/ /pubmed/34570698 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73819 Text en © 2021, Bera et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Ecology Bera, Bidesh K Tzuk, Omer Bennett, Jamie JR Meron, Ehud Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity |
title | Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity |
title_full | Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity |
title_fullStr | Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity |
title_full_unstemmed | Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity |
title_short | Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity |
title_sort | linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity |
topic | Ecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8497052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34570698 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73819 |
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