Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness

Iris Hordijk; Daniel S. Maynard; Simon Hart; Mo Lidong; Hans ter Steege; Jingjing Liang; Sergio De-Miguel; Gert‐jan Nabuurs; Peter Reich; Meinrad Abegg; C. Yves Adou Yao; Giorgio Alberti; Angelica Almeyda Zambrano; Braulio Alvarado; Alvarez‐davila Esteban; Patricia Alvarez-Loayza; Luciana Alves; Christian Ammer; Clara Antón-Fernández; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Luzmila Arroyo; Valerio Avitabile; Gerardo Aymard C; Timothy Baker; Radomir Bałazy; Olaf Banki; Jorcely Barroso; Meredith Bastian; Jean‐francois Bastin; Luca Birigazzi; Philippe Birnbaum; Robert Bitariho; Pascal Boeckx; Frans Bongers; Olivier Bouriaud; Pedro Brancalion; Susanne Brandl; Roel Brienen; Eben Broadbent; Helge Bruelheide; Filippo Bussotti; Roberto Cazzolla Gatti; Ricardo César; Goran Cesljar; Robin Chazdon; Han Chen; Chelsea Chisholm; Emil Cienciala; Connie Clark; David Clark; Gabriel Colletta; David Coomes; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Jose Corral-Rivas; Philip Crim; Jonathan Cumming; Selvadurai Dayanandan; André de Gasper; Mathieu Decuyper; Géraldine Derroire; Ben Devries; Ilija Djordjevic; Amaral Iêda; Aurélie Dourdain; Engone Obiang Nestor Laurier; Brian Enquist; Teresa Eyre; Adandé Belarmain Fandohan; Tom Fayle; Leandro Ferreira; Ted Feldpausch; Leena Finér; Markus Fischer; Christine Fletcher; Lorenzo Frizzera; Javier Gamarra; Damiano Gianelle; Henry Glick; David Harris; Andrew Hector; Andreas Hemp; Geerten Hengeveld; Bruno Hérault; John Herbohn; Annika Hillers; Eurídice Honorio Coronado; Cang Hui; Hyunkook Cho; Thomas Ibanez; Il Bin Jung; Nobuo Imai; Andrzej Jagodzinski; Bogdan Jaroszewicz; Vivian Johanssen; Carlos Joly; Tommaso Jucker; Viktor Karminov; Kuswata Kartawinata; Elizabeth Kearsley; David Kenfack; Deborah Kennard; Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas; Gunnar Keppel; Mohammed Latif Khan; Timothy Killeen; Hyun Seok Kim; Kanehiro Kitayama; Michael Köhl; Henn Korjus; Florian Kraxner; Diana Laarmann; Mait Lang; Simon Lewis; Huicui Lu; Natalia Lukina; Brian Maitner; Yadvinder Malhi; Eric Marcon; Beatriz Schwantes Marimon; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior; Andrew Robert Marshall; Emanuel Martin; Olga Martynenko; Jorge Meave; Omar Melo-Cruz; Casimiro Mendoza; Cory Merow; Miscicki Stanislaw; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Vanessa Moreno; Sharif Mukul; Philip Mundhenk; Maria Nava-Miranda; David Neill; Victor Neldner; Radovan Nevenic; Michael Ngugi; Pascal Niklaus; Jacek Oleksyn; Petr Ontikov; Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi; Yude Pan; Alain Paquette; Alexander Parada-Gutierrez; Elena Parfenova; Minjee Park; Marc Parren; Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy; Pablo Peri; Sebastian Pfautsch; Oliver Phillips; Nicolas Picard; Maria Teresa Piedade; Daniel Piotto; Nigel Pitman; Irina Polo; Lourens Poorter; Axel Dalberg Poulsen; John Poulsen; Hans Pretzsch; Freddy Ramirez Arevalo; Zorayda Restrepo-Correa; Mirco Rodeghiero; Samir Rolim; Anand Roopsind; Francesco Rovero; Ervan Rutishauser; Purabi Saikia; Christian Salas-Eljatib; Peter Schall; Dmitry Schepaschenko; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen; Bernhard Schmid; Jochen Schöngart; Eric Searle; Vladimír Šebeň; Josep Serra-Diaz; Douglas Sheil; Anatoly Shvidenko; Javier Silva-Espejo; Marcos Silveira; James Singh; Plinio Sist; Ferry Slik; Bonaventure Sonké; Alexandre Souza; Krzysztof Stereńczak; Jens‐christian Svenning; Miroslav Svoboda; Ben Swanepoel; Natalia Targhetta; Nadja Tchebakova; Raquel Thomas; Elena Tikhonova; Peter Umunay; Vladimir Usoltsev; Renato Valencia; Fernando Valladares; Fons van der Plas; Do Van Tran; Michael van Nuland; Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez; Hans Verbeeck; Helder Viana; Alexander Vibrans; Simone Vieira; Klaus von Gadow; Hua‐feng Wang; James Watson; Gijsbert Werner; Susan Wiser; Florian Wittmann; Verginia Wortel; Roderick Zagt; Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki; Chunyu Zhang; Xiuhai Zhao; Mo Zhou; Zhi‐xin Zhu; Irie Casimir Zo-Bi; Thomas Crowther

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Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness

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Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness

Iris Hordijk, Daniel S. Maynard, Simon Hart, Mo Lidong, Hans ter Steege, Jingjing Liang, Sergio De-Miguel, Gert‐jan Nabuurs, Peter Reich, Meinrad Abegg, …

Journal of Ecology, Vol.111(6), pp.1308-1326

01/06/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14098

Abstract

Diversity

Ecosystem function and services

Evenness

Forests

Global

Productivity

Species richness

1. Biodiversity is an important component of natural ecosystems, with higher species richness often correlating with an increase in ecosystem productivity. Yet, this relationship varies substantially across environments, typically becoming less pronounced at high levels of species richness. However, species richness alone cannot reflect all important properties of a community, including community evenness, which may mediate the relationship between biodiversity and productivity. If the evenness of a community correlates negatively with richness across forests globally, then a greater number of species may not always increase overall diversity and productivity of the system. Theoretical work and local empirical studies have shown that the effect of evenness on ecosystem functioning may be especially strong at high richness levels, yet the consistency of this remains untested at a global scale. 2. Here, we used a dataset of forests from across the globe, which includes composition, biomass accumulation and net primary productivity, to explore whether productivity correlates with community evenness and richness in a way that evenness appears to buffer the effect of richness. Specifically, we evaluated whether low levels of evenness in speciose communities correlate with the attenuation of the richness–productivity relationship. 3. We found that tree species richness and evenness are negatively correlated across forests globally, with highly speciose forests typically comprising a few dominant and many rare species. Furthermore, we found that the correlation between diversity and productivity changes with evenness: at low richness, uneven communities are more productive, while at high richness, even communities are more productive. 4. Synthesis. Collectively, these results demonstrate that evenness is an integral component of the relationship between biodiversity and productivity, and that the attenuating effect of richness on forest productivity might be partly explained by low evenness in speciose communities. Productivity generally increases with species richness, until reduced evenness limits the overall increases in community diversity. Our research suggests that evenness is a fundamental component of biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships, and is of critical importance for guiding conservation and sustainable ecosystem management decisions.

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Title: Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness
Creators - without role: Iris Hordijk - ETH Zurich
Daniel S. Maynard - ETH Zurich
Simon Hart - University of Queensland
Mo Lidong
Hans ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Jingjing Liang - Purdue University West Lafayette
Sergio De-Miguel - Universitat de Lleida
Gert‐jan Nabuurs - Wageningen University & Research
Peter Reich - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Meinrad Abegg - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
C. Yves Adou Yao
Giorgio Alberti - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Angelica Almeyda Zambrano
Braulio Alvarado - Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Alvarez‐davila Esteban
Patricia Alvarez-Loayza - Field Museum of Natural History
Luciana Alves
Christian Ammer - University of Göttingen
Clara Antón-Fernández - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Luzmila Arroyo - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Valerio Avitabile - Joint Research Centre
Gerardo Aymard C
Timothy Baker - University of Leeds
Radomir Bałazy - Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa
Olaf Banki
Jorcely Barroso - Universidade Federal do Acre
Meredith Bastian - National Academy of Sciences
Jean‐francois Bastin - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Luca Birigazzi - United Nations University
Philippe Birnbaum - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Robert Bitariho - Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Pascal Boeckx - Ghent University
Frans Bongers - Wageningen University & Research
Olivier Bouriaud - Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava
Pedro Brancalion
Susanne Brandl - Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Eben Broadbent - University of Florida
Helge Bruelheide - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Filippo Bussotti - University of Florence
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti
Ricardo César - Universidade de São Paulo
Goran Cesljar - Institute of Forestry
Robin Chazdon - University of Connecticut
Han Chen
Chelsea Chisholm - ETH Zurich
Emil Cienciala - Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research
Connie Clark - Duke University
David Clark - University of Missouri–St. Louis
Gabriel Colletta - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
David Coomes - Conservation Leadership Programme
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Jose Corral-Rivas - Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
Philip Crim - College of Saint Rose
Jonathan Cumming - West Virginia University
Selvadurai Dayanandan - Concordia University
André de Gasper - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Mathieu Decuyper - Wageningen University & Research
Géraldine Derroire - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Ben Devries - University of Maryland, College Park
Ilija Djordjevic - Institute of Forestry
Amaral Iêda - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Aurélie Dourdain - Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Engone Obiang Nestor Laurier
Brian Enquist - University of Arizona
Teresa Eyre - Queensland Department of Environment and Science
Adandé Belarmain Fandohan - Université d'Agriculture de Kétou
Tom Fayle - Czech Academy of Sciences
Leandro Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Ted Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Leena Finér - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Markus Fischer - University of Bern
Christine Fletcher - Forest Research Institute Malaysia
Lorenzo Frizzera - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Javier Gamarra
Damiano Gianelle - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Henry Glick - Yale University
David Harris - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Andrew Hector
Andreas Hemp - University of Bayreuth
Geerten Hengeveld - Wageningen University & Research
Bruno Hérault - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
John Herbohn - University of the Sunshine Coast
Annika Hillers - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Eurídice Honorio Coronado
Cang Hui - Stellenbosch University
Hyunkook Cho - Korea Forest Service
Thomas Ibanez - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Il Bin Jung - Korea Forest Service
Nobuo Imai - Tokyo University of Agriculture
Andrzej Jagodzinski - University of Life Sciences in Poznań
Bogdan Jaroszewicz - Białowieża National Park
Vivian Johanssen - University of Copenhagen
Carlos Joly - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Tommaso Jucker - University of Bristol
Viktor Karminov - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Kuswata Kartawinata - Field Museum of Natural History
Elizabeth Kearsley - Ghent University
David Kenfack - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Deborah Kennard - Colorado Mesa University
Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas - University of Copenhagen
Gunnar Keppel - University of South Australia
Mohammed Latif Khan - Dr. Hari Singh Gour University
Timothy Killeen - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Hyun Seok Kim - Seoul National University
Kanehiro Kitayama - Kyoto University
Michael Köhl - Universität Hamburg
Henn Korjus - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Florian Kraxner - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Diana Laarmann - University College London
Mait Lang - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Simon Lewis - University of Leeds
Huicui Lu - Qingdao Agricultural University
Natalia Lukina
Brian Maitner - University of Arizona
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Eric Marcon - AgroParisTech
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior
Andrew Robert Marshall - University of the Sunshine Coast
Emanuel Martin - College of African Wildlife Management
Olga Martynenko
Jorge Meave - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Omar Melo-Cruz - University of Tolima
Casimiro Mendoza - Universidad Indígena Quechua Boliviana Casimiro Huanca
Cory Merow - University of Connecticut
Miscicki Stanislaw
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Vanessa Moreno - Forest Science and Research Institute
Sharif Mukul - University of the Sunshine Coast
Philip Mundhenk - Universität Hamburg
Maria Nava-Miranda - Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Victor Neldner - Santa Fe Institute
Radovan Nevenic - Institute of Forestry
Michael Ngugi - Queensland Department of Environment and Science
Pascal Niklaus - University of Zurich
Jacek Oleksyn - Institute of Dendrology
Petr Ontikov - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi - Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Yude Pan - US Forest Service
Alain Paquette - Université du Québec à Montréal
Alexander Parada-Gutierrez - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Elena Parfenova - Sukachev Institute of Forest
Minjee Park - Purdue University West Lafayette
Marc Parren - Wageningen University & Research
Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy - Pondicherry University
Pablo Peri - National Agricultural Technology Institute
Sebastian Pfautsch - Western Sydney University
Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds
Nicolas Picard - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Maria Teresa Piedade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Daniel Piotto - Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
Nigel Pitman
Irina Polo
Lourens Poorter - Wageningen University & Research
Axel Dalberg Poulsen - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
John Poulsen - Duke University
Hans Pretzsch - Technical University of Munich
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo
Zorayda Restrepo-Correa - Fundación Con Vida
Mirco Rodeghiero - Centro Agricoltura Ambiente
Samir Rolim - Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
Anand Roopsind - Boise State University
Francesco Rovero - University of Florence
Ervan Rutishauser
Purabi Saikia - Central University of Jharkhand
Christian Salas-Eljatib
Peter Schall - University of Göttingen
Dmitry Schepaschenko - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen - University of Freiburg
Bernhard Schmid - University of Zurich
Jochen Schöngart - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Eric Searle - Université du Québec à Montréal
Vladimír Šebeň - National Forest Centre
Josep Serra-Diaz - AgroParisTech
Douglas Sheil - Wageningen University & Research
Anatoly Shvidenko
Javier Silva-Espejo - University of La Serena
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
James Singh - Guyana Forestry Commission
Plinio Sist - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Ferry Slik - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Bonaventure Sonké - Université de Yaoundé I
Alexandre Souza - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Krzysztof Stereńczak - University of Leeds
Jens‐christian Svenning - AgroParisTech
Miroslav Svoboda - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Ben Swanepoel - Wildlife Conservation Society
Natalia Targhetta - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Nadja Tchebakova - Université du Québec à Montréal
Raquel Thomas - Guiana Space Centre
Elena Tikhonova
Peter Umunay - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vladimir Usoltsev - Ural State Forestry Engineering University
Renato Valencia - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Fernando Valladares - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Fons van der Plas - Wageningen University & Research
Do Van Tran
Michael van Nuland - Stanford University
Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez
Hans Verbeeck - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Helder Viana - University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Alexander Vibrans - Concordia University
Simone Vieira - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Klaus von Gadow - Stellenbosch University
Hua‐feng Wang
James Watson
Gijsbert Werner
Susan Wiser - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Florian Wittmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Verginia Wortel
Roderick Zagt
Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki
Chunyu Zhang - Beijing Forestry University
Xiuhai Zhao - Beijing Forestry University
Mo Zhou
Zhi‐xin Zhu - Hainan University
Irie Casimir Zo-Bi - Université de Montpellier
Thomas Crowther - ETH Zurich
Publication Details: Journal of Ecology, Vol.111(6), pp.1308-1326
Grant note: DOB Ecology
Identifiers: 9940715509311
Academic Unit: BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-04140040