Out now! Ecological #ResponseDiversity research priorities @nordicoikos.bsky.social 🌍🧪
Key findings:
Ecologists don't agree (I could stop there) on definitions (& there...) of #ResponseDiversity scales & dimensions but see conceptual value
Our network must diversify. Join us!
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Species Interactions Determine the Importance of Response Diversity for Community Stability to Pulse Disturbances Caculations of response diversity can be based on species fundamental responses in isolation or their realised responses in the community using metrics of response dissimilarity and response divergen...

Read our new paper, in which we explore the importance of response diversity for maintaining community stability in the context of pulse disturbances, using a combination of model simulations and meta-analysis:
doi.org/10.1111/ele.... w @hillebr1.bsky.social @owpet.bsky.social & Shyamolina Ghosh

Excited to announce our thematic session at @britishecologicalsociety.org annual meeting!

@ckunze.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing the thematic session entitled “Insurance in ecosystems: exploring the role of response diversity across scales”.

My first post is finally here:

I am very excited to share our newest paper in Ecology where we present the temperature-dependent effect of multiple resources on #phytoplankton growth, using gradients of temperatures, light and nutrients.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Newsletter out now: Find out about the contribution of individual species to the stability of ecosystems, our look back at the biodiversity COP, and the role of a modern scientist & the question of whether or not the ivory tower nowadays is a place to be: 241806.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/15774382 🦑

Interestingly, compensatory dynamics between species, where rare species increased in biomass after dominant species decreased in biomass following the disturbance, occurred in both model simulations and empirical data.

with @marenstriebel.bsky.social @hillebr1.bsky.social & others (not on bluesky)

Using model simulations of multi-species communities and empirical data from a multi-site experiment, we show that species contributions to stability are highly context-dependent and vary not only with disturbance type, but also in time and space.

We argue that species can stabilise community properties to disturbance in two ways: (i) by being more tolerant than the community on average, increasing in biomass and in proportion, or (ii) by being less sensitive to disturbance than other species, and decreasing proportionately less in biomass.

Read our new paper in EcologicalMonographs esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We introduce a framework on how to partition species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities based on species absolute change in biomass and relative change in proportion.