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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9159
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB954004, 2014CB954002]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA05050404, XDB03030403]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31025005, 31321061, 41071167]
- National Science Foundation Dimensions of Biodiversity grant [NSF-1136703]
- Danish National Research Foundation
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences Program Award [DE-SC0010562]
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1136703] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Plant biodiversity is often correlated with ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we know little about the relative and combined effects of above-and belowground biodiversity on multiple ecosystem functions (for example, ecosystem multifunctionality, EMF) or how climate might mediate those relationships. Here we tease apart the effects of biotic and abiotic factors, both above- and belowground, on EMF on the Tibetan Plateau, China. We found that a suite of biotic and abiotic variables account for up to 86% of the variation in EMF, with the combined effects of above-and belowground biodiversity accounting for 45% of the variation in EMF. Our results have two important implications: first, including belowground biodiversity in models can improve the ability to explain and predict EMF. Second, regional-scale variation in climate, and perhaps climate change, can determine, or at least modify, the effects of biodiversity on EMF in natural ecosystems.
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