Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests
Takehiro Sasaki · Daniela Hoss · Yuanyuan Huang · Yuki Iwachido · Liting Zheng · Luis Abdala-Roberts · Eric Allan · Harald Auge · Nadia Barsoum · Jürgen Bauhus · Christel Baum · Carl Beierkuhnlein · Friderike Beyer · Pedro Brancalion · Seraina L. Cappelli · Chengjin Chu · Dylan Craven · Caroline Daniel · Jiri Dolezal · Anne Ebeling · Marina Fagundes · Olga Ferlian · Gislene Ganade · Tobias Gebauer · Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume · Douglas Godbold · Nathaly Guerrero-Ramírez · Joannès Guillemot · Peter Hajek · Andy Hector · Dirk Hölscher · Hervé Jactel · Anke Jentsch · Julia Koricheva · Holger Kreft · Juergen Kreyling · Vojtech Lanta · Jan Leps · Wei Lin · Maybeth Mendoza-Espinosa · Celine Meredieu · Christian Messier · Sebastian T. Meyer · Florencia Montagnini · Bart Muys · Charles Nock · Alain Paquette · William C. Parker · John D. Parker · Victor Parra-Tabla · John Parrotta · Gustavo B. Paterno · Noémie A. Pichon · Daniel Piotto · Wayne Polley · Quentin Ponette · Catherine Potvin · Peter B. Reich · Boris Rewald · Agnès Robin · Christiane Roscher · Hans Sanden · Michael Scherer-Lorenzen · Florian Schnabel · Eric B. Searle · Alrun Siebenkäs · Rachel J. Standish · David Tilman · Jasper van Ruijven · Kris Verheyen · Alexandra Weigelt · Martin Weih · Ramona Werner · Brian Wilsey · Bernhard Schmid · Forest Isbell · Nico Eisenhauer
期刊Nature Ecology & Evolution / Nat Ecol Evol
类型Article
发表2026-07-15 (online)
卷期页10(8): 1464-1474
收录2026-10-09
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关键词biodiversity-productivity relationshipclimate extremesdroughtextreme heatariditygrasslandforestscomplementarity effectsselection effectssoil nutrients
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Biodiversity generally enhances ecosystem productivity, but whether such effects persist or intensify during climate extremes is unclear. Here we synthesized data from 75 biodiversity experiments across grasslands and forests to assess how aridity and soil nutrients modulate plant diversity effects under drought and heat extremes. Biodiversity most strongly enhanced productivity under extreme drought in more arid grasslands but had limited effects in forests under such conditions. More arid grasslands showed enhanced complementarity effects under extreme drought, whereas less arid grasslands favoured selection effects driven by productive species. Heat extremes did not produce comparable context-dependent changes in plant diversity effects across ecosystem types or aridity gradients. Soil nutrients did not have any detectable influence under either drought or heat extremes, suggesting that as climatic stress intensifies, hydric limitations override edaphic constraints. Our synthesis identifies when and where plant diversity most strongly enhances productivity, showing that its effects are the greatest under extreme drought in more arid grasslands.

@article{sasaki2026,
author = {Takehiro Sasaki and Daniela Hoss and Yuanyuan Huang and Yuki Iwachido and Liting Zheng and Luis Abdala-Roberts and Eric Allan and Harald Auge and Nadia Barsoum and Jürgen Bauhus and Christel Baum and Carl Beierkuhnlein and Friderike Beyer and Pedro Brancalion and Seraina L. Cappelli and Chengjin Chu and Dylan Craven and Caroline Daniel and Jiri Dolezal and Anne Ebeling and Marina Fagundes and Olga Ferlian and Gislene Ganade and Tobias Gebauer and Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume and Douglas Godbold and Nathaly Guerrero-Ramírez and Joannès Guillemot and Peter Hajek and Andy Hector and Dirk Hölscher and Hervé Jactel and Anke Jentsch and Julia Koricheva and Holger Kreft and Juergen Kreyling and Vojtech Lanta and Jan Leps and Wei Lin and Maybeth Mendoza-Espinosa and Celine Meredieu and Christian Messier and Sebastian T. Meyer and Florencia Montagnini and Bart Muys and Charles Nock and Alain Paquette and William C. Parker and John D. Parker and Victor Parra-Tabla and John Parrotta and Gustavo B. Paterno and Noémie A. Pichon and Daniel Piotto and Wayne Polley and Quentin Ponette and Catherine Potvin and Peter B. Reich and Boris Rewald and Agnès Robin and Christiane Roscher and Hans Sanden and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Florian Schnabel and Eric B. Searle and Alrun Siebenkäs and Rachel J. Standish and David Tilman and Jasper van Ruijven and Kris Verheyen and Alexandra Weigelt and Martin Weih and Ramona Werner and Brian Wilsey and Bernhard Schmid and Forest Isbell and Nico Eisenhauer},
title = {Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests},
journal = {Nature Ecology \& Evolution},
year = {2026},
volume = {10},
number = {8},
pages = {1464-1474},
doi = {10.1038/s41559-026-03130-1},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
}· END ·