ArticleScience advances2023
Scale-dependent changes in ecosystem temporal stability over six decades of succession.
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- Herbivore species asynchrony underpins multitrophic stability across plants, herbivores and predators.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Beyond the Cascade Dams: Scale-Dependent Effects on Zooplankton Stability in River Ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Plant diversity within communities, not among them, stabilizes grassland productivity across spatial scales.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Decadal-scale observations are key to detecting the stabilizing effects of plant diversity in natural ecosystems.Nature plants · 2026Article
- Counteracting Cascades Challenge the Heterogeneity-Stability Relationship.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Soil Carbon Cycling and Its Response to Environmental Change in a Northern Hardwood Forest.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Temporal stability of forest productivity declines over stand age at multiple spatial scales.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Effects of grazing on plant functional groups across spatial scales inFrontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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- Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming.Nature plants · 2024Article
- A successional shift enhances stability in ant symbiont communities.Communications biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
A widely assumed, but largely untested, tenet in ecology is that ecosystem stability tends to increase over succession. We rigorously test this idea using 60-year continuous data of old field succession across 480 plots nested within 10 fields. We found that ecosystem temporal stability increased over succession at the larger field scale (γ stability) but not at the local plot scale (α stability). Increased spatial asynchrony among plots within fields increased γ stability, while temporal increases in species stability and decreases in species asynchrony offset each other, resulting in no increase in α stability at the local scale. Furthermore, we found a notable positive diversity-stability relationship at the larger but not local scale, with the increased γ stability at the larger scale associated with increasing functional diversity later in succession. Our results emphasize the importance of spatial scale in assessing ecosystem stability over time and how it relates to biodiversity.
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