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Effect of aridity on species assembly in gypsum drylands: a response mediated by the soil affinity of species
Arantzazu Luzuriaga
pablo ferrandis
Joel David Flores Rivas
Adrián Escudero
Acceso Abierto
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas
https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa020
Aridity gradient
Assembly rules
Community weighted mean (CWM)
Edaphic endemism
Functional diversity
Gypsum soil
Mediterranean
Phylogenetic diversity
Semiarid
Soil affinity
"Previous studies found that plant communities on infertile soils are relatively resistant to climatic variation due to stress tolerance adaptations. However, the species assemblies in gypsum soil habitats require further investigation. Thus, we considered the following questions. (1) Do harsher arid conditions determine the characteristics of the species that form plant assemblages? (2) Is the selection of the species that assemble in arid conditions mediated by their ability to grow on gypsum soils? (3) Is the selection of species that assemble in harsher conditions related to phylogenetically conserved functional traits? Perennial plant communities were analysed in 89 gypsum-soil sites along a 400 km climate gradient from the central to southeastern Iberian Peninsula. Each local assemblage was analysed in 30 × 30 m plots and described based on taxonomic, functional (soil plant affinity) and phylogenetic parameters. The mean maximum temperatures in the hottest month, mean annual precipitation and their interaction terms were used as surrogates for the aridity conditions in generalized linear models. In the hottest locations, the gypsophily range narrowed and the mean gypsophily increased at the community level, thereby suggesting the filtering of species and the dominance of soil specialists in the actual plant assemblies. Drier sites had higher taxonomic diversity. The species that formed the perennial communities were close in evolutionary terms at the two ends of the aridity gradient. The mean maximum temperatures in the hottest month had the main abiotic filtering effect on perennial plant communities, which was mediated by the ability of species to grow on gypsum soils, and thus gypsum specialists dominated the species assemblies in the hottest locations. In contrast, the perennial communities on gypsum soils were relatively resistant to changes in precipitation. Our findings suggest that the warmer environmental conditions predicted by global change models will favour gypsum specialists over generalists."
Oxford University Press
2020
Artículo
Arantzazu L Luzuriaga, Pablo Ferrandis, Joel Flores, Adrián Escudero, Effect of aridity on species assembly in gypsum drylands: a response mediated by the soil affinity of species, AoB PLANTS, Volume 12, Issue 3, June 2020, plaa020, https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa020
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