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OIKOS
卷 119, 期 7, 页码 1081-1088出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.18116.x
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- Teagasc Walsh Fellowship
Dung fauna plays an important role in dung decomposition, a key ecosystem process in nutrient cycling in grazed grasslands. The diversity of a three-species community (dung beetles, dung flies and epigeic earthworms) was systematically manipulated to produce different relative abundance distributions (evenness levels) and the resulting communities were introduced to standardised dung pats in laboratory experiments. Dung decomposition was modelled using an analysis that disentangled species identity effects and the interactions among species that contribute to the diversity effect. This revealed that the net diversity effect was composed of positive (fly-earthworm), negative (beetle-earthworm) and neutral (fly-beetle) effects of species interaction. These pairwise interactions resulted in complex, but systematically varying and predictable effects on dung decomposition as the relative abundances of species changed. Decomposition was consistently greater in communities with higher decomposer biomass. The utility of the adopted analytical approach was emphasised by comparison with an ANOVA that found that dung decomposition did not differ among evenness levels. Thus, the averaging of decomposition across different community structures within evenness levels masked the different effects of species interactions. These results highlight methodological insights into the quantification of diversity-function relationships.
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