Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities

Fukami, Tadashi; Dickie, Ian A.; Wilkie, J. P.; Paulus, Barbara; Park, Duckchul; Roberts, Andrea; Buchanan, Peter; Allen, Robert B.

doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01465.x

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“…The stochasticity of wood colonisation, i.e. the 'who comes first' effect, may also be an important determinant of community composition and decay activity (Valaskova et al 2009;Fukami et al 2010;Dickie et al 2012).…”

Section: Drivers Of Decomposer Activitymentioning

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Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment

Cornelissen¹,

Sass‐Klaassen

Poorter

et al. 2012

AMBIO

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Dead wood provides a huge terrestrial carbon stock and a habitat to wide-ranging organisms during its decay. Our brief review highlights that, in order to understand environmental change impacts on these functions, we need to quantify the contributions of different interacting biotic and abiotic drivers to wood decomposition. LOG-LIFE is a new long-term 'common-garden' experiment to disentangle the effects of species' wood traits and siterelated environmental drivers on wood decomposition dynamics and its associated diversity of microbial and invertebrate communities. This experiment is firmly rooted in pioneering experiments under the directorship of Terry Callaghan at Abisko Research Station, Sweden. LOGLIFE features two contrasting forest sites in the Netherlands, each hosting a similar set of coarse logs and branches of 10 tree species. LOGLIFE welcomes other researchers to test further questions concerning coarse wood decay that will also help to optimise forest management in view of carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation.

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Section: Drivers Of Decomposer Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment

Cornelissen¹,

Sass‐Klaassen

Poorter

et al. 2012

AMBIO

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“…The destruction of assembled communities by disturbances precludes the dominance of equilibrium-based mechanisms of coexistence, which will strongly affect biodiversityecosystem functioning relationships [55], because the dominance of species will not only be based on their resource use or effect traits [56], but also by chance, e.g. through priority effects in the colonization sequence [57,58]. If successful, functional traits in non-equilibrium conditions are not related to the use of resources and growth, but to colonization and dispersal abilities, or the ability to withstand disturbances.…”

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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes

Brose

Hillebrand

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 17 to a theme issue 'Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes'. The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) and its consequence for ecosystem services has predominantly been studied by controlled, short-term and small-scale experiments under standardized environmental conditions and constant community compositions. However, changes in biodiversity occur in real-world ecosystems with varying environments and a dynamic community composition. In this theme issue, we present novel research on BEF in such dynamic communities. The contributions are organized in three sections on BEF relationships in (i) multi-trophic diversity, (ii) non-equilibrium biodiversity under disturbance and varying environmental conditions, and (iii) large spatial and long temporal scales. The first section shows that multi-trophic BEF relationships often appear idiosyncratic, while accounting for species traits enables a predictive understanding. Future BEF research on complex communities needs to include ecological theory that is based on first principles of species-averaged body masses, stoichiometry and effects of environmental conditions such as temperature. The second section illustrates that disturbance and varying environments have direct as well as indirect (via changes in species richness, community composition and species' traits) effects on BEF relationships. Fluctuations in biodiversity (species richness, community composition and also trait dominance within species) can severely modify BEF relationships. The third section demonstrates that BEF at larger spatial scales is driven by different variables. While species richness per se and community biomass are most important, species identity effects and community composition are less important than at small scales. Across long temporal scales, mass extinctions represent severe changes in biodiversity with mixed effects on ecosystem functions. Together, the contributions of this theme issue identify new research frontiers and answer some open questions on BEF relationships in dynamic communities of real-world landscapes.

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“…The priority effects in dead wood communities found in our and previous studies (Fukami et al. 2010; Weslien et al. 2011; Dickie et al.…”

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“…Short‐term experimental studies have shown that manipulating arrival order of species can strongly affect not only species composition and richness, but also ecosystem function (Fukami et al. 2010; Dickie et al. 2012).…”

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Priority effects of early successional insects influence late successional fungi in dead wood

Jacobsen

Birkemoe

Sverdrup‐Thygeson

2015

Ecology and Evolution

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Community assembly is an integral process in all ecosystems, producing patterns of species distributions, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. Environmental filters and colonization history govern the assembly process, but their relative importance varies depending on the study system. Dead wood decomposition is a slow process, allowing decomposer communities to develop within a slowly changing substrate for decades. Despite this, there are few long‐term studies of priority effects from colonization history in this ecosystem. In this study, we investigate the importance of insects in early succession of dead wood on the fungal community present one decade later. Sixty aspen trees were killed in two study landscapes, each tree producing one aspen high stump and log. Insects were sampled with flight interception traps during the first 4 years after tree death, and fungal fruiting bodies were registered in year twelve. We found positive priority effects of two fungivorous beetles, the sap beetle Glischrochilus quadripunctatus and the round fungus beetle Agathidium nigripenne, on the Artist's bracket (Ganoderma applanatum) and a positive priority effect of wood‐boring beetles on the ascomycete Yellow fairy cup (Bisporella citrina). The Aspen bracket (Phellinus tremulae) did not respond to insects in early succession of the dead wood. Our results suggest that early successional insects can have significant, long‐lasting effects on the late successional fungal community in dead wood. Also, the effect can be specific, with one fungus species depending on one or a few fungivorous beetle species. This has implications for decomposition and biodiversity in dead wood, as loss of early colonizing beetles may also affect the successional pathways they seem to initiate.

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Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities

Cited by 534 publications

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Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment

Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes

Priority effects of early successional insects influence late successional fungi in dead wood

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