Ecosystem consequences of species richness and composition in pond food webs.

Abstract:

:Resolving current concerns about the role of biodiversity on ecosystems calls for understanding the separate roles of changes in species numbers and of composition. Recent work shows that primary productivity often, but not always, saturates with species richness within single trophic levels. However, any interpretation of such patterns must consider that variation in biodiversity is necessarily associated with changes in species composition (identity), and that changes in biodiversity often occur across multiple trophic levels. Here we present results from a mesocosm experiment in which we independently manipulated species richness and species composition across multiple trophic levels in pond food webs. In contrast to previous studies that focused on single trophic levels, we found that productivity is either idiosyncratic or increases with respect to species richness, and that richness influences trophic structure. However, the composition of species within richness levels can have equally or more marked effects on ecosystems than average effects of richness per se. Indirect evidence suggests that richness and associated changes in species composition affect ecosystem attributes through indirect effects and trophic interactions among species, features that are highly characteristic of natural, complex ecosystems.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Downing AL,Leibold MA

doi

10.1038/416837a

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-04-25 00:00:00

pages

837-41

issue

6883

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

pii

416837a

journal_volume

416

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