Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats

Ingmar R. Staude (1, 2) , Henrique M. Pereira (1, 3, 2) , Gergana N. Daskalova (4) , Markus Bernhardt-Roemermann (2, 5) , Martin Diekmann (6) , Harald Pauli (7, 8) , Hans van Calster (9) , Mark Vellend (10) , Anne D. Bjorkman (11) , Jorg Brunet (12) , Pieter de Frenne (13) , Radim Hédl (14, 15) , Ute Jandt (2, 1) , Jonathan Roger Michel Henri Lenoir (16) , Isla H. Myers-Smith (4) , Kris Verheyen (13) , Sonja Wipf (17) , Monika Wulf (18) , Christopher Andrews (19) , Peter Barancok (20) , Elena Barni (21) , Jose-Luis Benito-Alonso (22, 23) , Jonathan Bennie (24) , Imre Berki (25) , Volker Blueml (26) , Markéta Chudomelová (14, 27) , Guillaume Decocq (16) , Jan Dick (19) , Thomas Dirnboeck (28) , Tomasz Durak (29) , Ove Eriksson (30) , Brigitta Erschbamer (31) , Bente Jessen Graae (32) , Thilo Heinken (33) , Fride Høistad Schei (34) , Bogdan Jaroszewicz (35) , Martin Kopecký (36, 37) , Thomas Kudernatsch (38) , Martin Macek (36) , Marek Malicki (39) , Frantisek Malis (40) , Ottar Michelsen (41) , Tobias Naaf (18) , Thomas A. Nagel (42) , Adrian C. Newton (43) , Lena Nicklas (31) , Ludovica Oddi (21) , Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai (44) , Andrej Palaj (20) , Alessandro Petraglia (45) , Petr Petrik (36) , Remigiusz Pielech (46, 47) , Francesco Porro (48) , Mihai Puscas (49) , Kamila Reczynska (39) , Christian Rixen (17) , Wolfgang Schmidt (50, 51) , Tibor Standovár (52) , Klaus Steinbauer (8, 7) , Krzysztof Swierkosz (46) , Balazs Teleki (53) , Jean-Paul Theurillat (54, 55) , Pavel Dan Turtureanu (49) , Tudor-Mihai Ursu (49) , Thomas Vanneste (13) , Philippine Vergeer (56) , Ondrej Vild (36) , Luis Villar (57) , Pascal Vittoz (58) , Manuela Winkler (7, 8) , Lander Baeten (13)

1 Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
2 iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
3 Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
4 University of Edinburgh
5 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]
6 University of Bremen
7 BOKU - Universität für Bodenkultur Wien = University of Natural Resources and Life [Vienne, Autriche]
8 OeAW - Austrian Academy of Sciences
9 INBO - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
10 UdeS - Département de biologie [Sherbrooke]
11 GU - University of Gothenburg
12 Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
13 UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University
14 CAS - Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague]
15 Palacky University Olomouc
16 EDYSAN - Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés - UMR CNRS 7058
17 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
18 ZALF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung = Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
19 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
20 Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
21 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology [University of Turin]
22 UB - Universitat de Barcelona
23 Jolube Consultor Botánico
24 University of Exeter
25 NRRC - Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences [Sopron]
26 University of Osnabrueck
27 MUNI - Masaryk University [Brno]
28 Umweltbundesamt GmbH = Environment Agency Austria
29 Rzeszow University of Technology
30 Stockholm University
31 Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck
32 NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim]
33 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
34 NIBIO - Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi=Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
35 UW - University of Warsaw
36 IB / CAS - Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences
37 CZU - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
38 LWF - Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft - Bavarian State Institute of Forestry
39 Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences
40 TUZVO - Technical University in Zvolen
41 NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
42 University of Ljubljana
43 BU - Bournemouth University [Poole]
44 University of Pecs
45 UNIPR - Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma
46 UWr - University of Wrocław [Poland]
47 AGH UST - AGH University of Science and Technology [Krakow, PL]
48 UNIPV - Università degli Studi di Pavia = University of Pavia
49 UBB - Babes-Bolyai University [Cluj-Napoca]
50 CRISMAT - Laboratoire de cristallographie et sciences des matériaux
51 Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
52 ELTE - Eötvös Loránd University
53 University of Debrecen Egyetem [Debrecen]
54 CAP - Centre alpien de Phytogéographie
55 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva
56 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
57 IPE - Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia = Pyrenean Institute of Ecology
58 UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne

Species turnover is ubiquitous. However, it remains unknown whether certain types of species are consistently gained or lost across different habitats. Here, we analysed the trajectories of 1827 plant species over time intervals of up to 78 years at 141 sites across mountain summits, forests, and lowland grasslands in Europe. We found, albeit with relatively small effect sizes, displacements of smaller- by larger-ranged species across habitats. Communities shifted in parallel towards more nutrient-demanding species, with species from nutrient-rich habitats having larger ranges. Because these species are typically strong competitors, declines of smaller-ranged species could reflect not only abiotic drivers of global change, but also biotic pressure from increased competition. The ubiquitous component of turnover based on species range size we found here may partially reconcile findings of no net loss in local diversity with global species loss, and link community-scale turnover to macroecological processes such as biotic homogenisation.

Mots clés: Alpine; Biodiversity change; Forest; ForestREplot; GLORIA; Grassland; Homogenization; Resurvey; Winner and loser species

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Ingmar R. Staude, Henrique M. Pereira, Gergana N. Daskalova, Markus Bernhardt-Roemermann, Martin Diekmann, et al.. Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats. Ecology Letters, 2022, 25 (2), pp.466-482. ⟨10.1111/ele.13937⟩. ⟨hal-03614152⟩