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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 36, Issue 9, Pages 822-836Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.05.001
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- Valencian government in Spain (Generalitat Valenciana) [AORG/2018/]
- Spanish Plan Nacional de I+D+i [PGC2018-099027-B-I00]
- 2017 program for attracting and retaining talent of Comunidad de Madrid [2017-T2/AMB-5406]
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Under global change, maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services over time is a fundamental question. Ecologists suggest that differences in functional traits among organisms play a key role in determining the temporal stability of ecosystem properties.
Under global change, how biological diversity and ecosystem services are maintained in time is a fundamental question. Ecologists have long argued about multiple mechanisms by which local biodiversity might control the temporal stability of ecosystem properties. Accumulating theories and empirical evidence suggest that, together with different population and community parameters, these mechanisms largely operate through differences in functional traits among organisms. We review potential trait-stability mechanisms together with underlying tests and associated metrics. We identify various trait-based components, each accounting for different stability mechanisms, that contribute to buffering, or propagating, the effect of environmental fluctuations on ecosystem functioning. This comprehensive picture, obtained by combining different puzzle pieces of trait-stability effects, will guide future empirical and modeling investigations.
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