ArticleScience advances2025
Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels.
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- Response diversity increases functional but decreases compositional stability of grassland communities.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Herbivore species asynchrony underpins multitrophic stability across plants, herbivores and predators.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- A functional-trophic pathway links riparian land use intensification to riverine community stability.Science advances · 2026Article
- Disentangling the effects of multifunctional forestry practices on the abundances of birds and their invertebrate prey.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Shifts in Assembly Rules and Loss of Zooplankton Functional Diversity Across Hypereutrophic Fishponds.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Habitat and land-use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Prairie management practices influence biodiversity, productivity and surface-atmosphere feedbacks.The New phytologist · 2025Article
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Abstract
Understanding how land use affects temporal stability is crucial to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Yet, the mechanistic links between land-use intensity and stability-driving mechanisms remain unclear, with functional traits likely playing a key role. Using 13 years of data from 300 sites in Germany, we tested whether and how trait-based community features mediate the effect of land-use intensity on acknowledged stability drivers (compensatory dynamics, portfolio effect, and dominant species variability), within and across plant and arthropod communities. Trait-based plant features, especially the prevalence of acquisitive strategies along the leaf-economics spectrum, were the main land-use intensity mediators within and across taxonomic and trophic levels, consistently influencing dominant species variability. Functional diversity also mediated land-use intensity effects but played a lesser role. Our analysis discloses trait-based community features as key mediators of land-use effects on stability drivers, emphasizing the need to consider multi-trophic functional interactions to better understand complex ecosystem dynamics.
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