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20849443

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-20
pubmed:abstractText
Ecosystem structure, functioning and stability have been a focus of ecological and environmental sciences during the past two decades. The mechanisms underlying their relationship, however, are not well understood. Based on comprehensive studies in Inner Mongolia grassland, here we show that species-level stoichiometric homoeostasis was consistently positively correlated with dominance and stability on both 2-year and 27-year temporal scales and across a 1200-km spatial transect. At the community level, stoichiometric homoeostasis was also positively correlated with ecosystem function and stability in most cases. Thus, homoeostatic species tend to have high and stable biomass; and ecosystems dominated by more homoeostatic species have higher productivity and greater stability. By modulating organism responses to key environmental drivers, stoichiometric homoeostasis appears to be a major mechanism responsible for the structure, functioning and stability of grassland ecosystems.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1461-0248
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1390-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Linking stoichiometric homoeostasis with ecosystem structure, functioning and stability.
pubmed:affiliation
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Letter, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.