Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands
- Seabloom, Eric W.
- Batzer, Evan
- Chase, Jonathan M.
- Stanley Harpole, W.
- Adler, Peter B.
- Bagchi, Sumanta
- Bakker, Jonathan
- Barrio, Isabel C.
- Biederman, Lori
- Boughton, Elizabeth H.
- Bugalho, Miguel N.
- Caldeira, Maria C.
- Catford, Jane A.
- Daleo, Pedro
- Eisenhauer, Nico
- Eskelinen, Anu
- Haider, Sylvia
- Hallett, Lauren M.
- Svala Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg
- Kimmel, Kaitlin
- Kuhlman, Marirose
- MacDougall, Andrew
- Molina, Cecilia Denisse
- Moore, Joslin L.
- Morgan, John W.
- Muthukrishnan, Ranjan
- Ohlert, Timothy
- Risch, Anita C.
- Roscher, Christiane
- Schütz, Martin
- Sonnier, Grégory
- Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano
- Virtanen, Risto
- Wilfahrt, Peter A.
- Borer, Elizabeth
DOIAbstract
The effects of altered nutrient supplies and herbivore density on species diversity vary with spatial scale, because coexistence mechanisms are scale dependent. This scale dependence may alter the shape of the species–area relationship (SAR), which can be described by changes in species richness (S) as a power function of the sample area (A): S = cAz, where c and z are constants. We analysed the effects of experimental manipulations of nutrient supply and herbivore density on species richness across a range of scales (0.01–75 m2) at 30 grasslands in 10 countries. We found that nutrient addition reduced the number of species that could co-occur locally, indicated by the SAR intercepts (log c), but did not affect the SAR slopes (z). As a resu...
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