Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands

Eric W. Seabloom; Evan Batzer; Jonathan M. Chase; W. Stanley Harpole; Peter B. Adler; Sumanta Bagchi; Jonathan D. Bakker; Isabel C. Barrio; Lori Biederman; Elizabeth H. Boughton; Miguel N. Bugalho; Maria C. Caldeira; Jane A. Catford; Pedro Daleo; Nico Eisenhauer; Anu Eskelinen; Sylvia Haider; Lauren M. Hallett; Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir; Kaitlin Kimmel; Marirose Kuhlman; Andrew MacDougall; Cecilia D. Molina; Joslin L. Moore; John W. Morgan; Ranjan Muthukrishnan; Timothy Ohlert; Anita C. Risch; Christiane Roscher; Martin Schütz; Grégory Sonnier; Pedro M. Tognetti; Risto Virtanen; Peter A. Wilfahrt; Elizabeth T. Borer

doi:10.1111/ele.13838

Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands

Eric W. Seabloom
, Evan Batzer
, Jonathan M. Chase
, W. Stanley Harpole
, Peter B. Adler
, Sumanta Bagchi
, Jonathan D. Bakker
, Isabel C. Barrio
, Lori Biederman
, Elizabeth H. Boughton
, Miguel N. Bugalho
, Maria C. Caldeira
, Jane A. Catford
, Pedro Daleo
, Nico Eisenhauer
, Anu Eskelinen
, Sylvia Haider
, Lauren M. Hallett
, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir
, Kaitlin Kimmel

Marirose Kuhlman, Andrew MacDougall, Cecilia D. Molina, Joslin L. Moore, John W. Morgan, Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Timothy Ohlert, Anita C. Risch, Christiane Roscher, Martin Schütz, Grégory Sonnier, Pedro M. Tognetti, Risto Virtanen, Peter A. Wilfahrt, Elizabeth T. Borer

University of Iceland, Agricultural University of Iceland, Other Icelandic Research Institutions

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Abstract

The effects of altered nutrient supplies and herbivore density on species diversity vary with spatial scale, because coexistence mechanisms are scale dependent. This scale dependence may alter the shape of the species–area relationship (SAR), which can be described by changes in species richness (S) as a power function of the sample area (A): S = cA^z, where c and z are constants. We analysed the effects of experimental manipulations of nutrient supply and herbivore density on species richness across a range of scales (0.01–75 m²) at 30 grasslands in 10 countries. We found that nutrient addition reduced the number of species that could co-occur locally, indicated by the SAR intercepts (log c), but did not affect the SAR slopes (z). As a result, proportional species loss due to nutrient enrichment was largely unchanged across sampling scales, whereas total species loss increased over threefold across our range of sampling scales.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2100-2112
Number of pages	13
Journal	Ecology Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13838
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021

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biodiversity
community ecology
grasslands
herbivores
nutrients

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Seabloom, E. W., Batzer, E., Chase, J. M., Stanley Harpole, W., Adler, P. B., Bagchi, S., Bakker, J. D., Barrio, I. C., Biederman, L., Boughton, E. H., Bugalho, M. N., Caldeira, M. C., Catford, J. A., Daleo, P., Eisenhauer, N., Eskelinen, A., Haider, S., Hallett, L. M., Svala Jónsdóttir, I., ... Borer, E. T. (2021). Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands. Ecology Letters, 24(10), 2100-2112. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13838

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Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands

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