Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands
Original language description
Nutrient enrichment typically causes local plant diversity declines. A common but untested expectation is that nutrient enrichment also reduces variation in nutrient conditions among localities and selects for a smaller pool of species, causing greater diversity declines at larger than local scales and thus biotic homogenization. Here we apply a framework that links changes in species richness across scales to changes in the numbers of spatially restricted and widespread species for a standardized nutrient addition experiment across 72 grasslands on six continents. Overall, we find proportionally similar species loss at local and larger scales, suggesting similar declines of spatially restricted and widespread species, and no biotic homogenization after 4 years and up to 14 years of treatment. These patterns of diversity changes are generally consistent across species groups. Thus, nutrient enrichment poses threats to plant diversity, including for widespread species that are often critical for ecosystem functions.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Communications
ISSN
2041-1723
e-ISSN
2041-1723
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
4903
UT code for WoS article
001497890700029
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105007054714