Habitat-specific trends in taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in European plant communities over a century
Stephan Kambach · Ute Jandt · Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta · Jose Manuel Álvarez-Martínez · Irena Axmanová · Manuele Bazzichetto · Erwin Bergmeier · Markus Bernhardt-Römermann · Idoia Biurrun · Gianmaria Bonari · Marta Carboni · Marcos Bergmann Carlucci · Maria Laura Carranza · Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini · Alessandro Chiarucci · Milan Chytrý · Gabriella Damasceno · Jürgen Dengler · Michele De Sanctis · Jan Divíšek · Jiří Dolezal · Stefan Dullinger · Franz Essl · Klára Friesová · Veronika Fontana · Emmanuel Garbolino · Michael Glaser · Ana González-Robles · Behlül Güler · Georg J. A. Hähn · Michal Hájek · Tracy Hruska · Estela Illa · Florian Jansen · Steven Jansen · Anke Jentsch · Borja Jiménez-Alfaro · W. Daniel Kissling · Ilona Knollová · Gianalberto Losapio · Udayangani Liu · Jonathan Lenoir · Frederic Lens · Bernd Lenzner · Antonio J. Perea · Laura Méndez · Julie Messier · Akira S. Mori · Francesca Napoleone · Roger Norum · Alexander Novakovskiy · Renske Onstein · Robin J. Pakeman · Josep Peñuelas · Petr Petřík · Remigiusz Pielech · Bruno X. Pinho · Peter Poschlod · Valerijus Rašomavičius · Christiane Roscher · Christian Rossi · Francesco Maria Sabatini · Brody Sandel · David Schellenberger Costa · Wolfgang Schmidt · Serge Sheremetiev · Tanvir Ahmed Shovon · Marko J. Spasojevic · Nathan G. Swenson · Grzegorz Swacha · Rubén Tarifa · Lubomír Tichý · Marcello Tomaselli · Alicia Valdés · Koenraad Van Meerbeek · Vigdis Vandvik · Kiril Vassilev · Martin Večeřa · Evan Weiher · Thomas Wohlgemuth · Helge Bruelheide
期刊Nature Communications / Nat Commun
类型Article
发表2026-05-08 (online)
卷期页17(1): 4208
收录2026-10-09
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关键词taxonomic diversityfunctional diversityphylogenetic diversitygamma diversityvascular plantsgrasslandred-listed speciesintroduced speciesgeneralist and specialist species
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Despite widespread concern over global biodiversity loss, the balance between gains and losses within local plant communities remains contentious, largely due to a scarcity of integrative, long-term and large-scale analyses across different habitats and multiple facets of biodiversity. Here, we analyse 57,390 vegetation-plot time series of vascular plants across Europe to quantify the average and habitat-specific trends in taxonomic, functional, phylogenetic, and gamma diversity, alongside with changes in threatened Red List, non-native, and specialist versus generalist species. We find that, over the last 100 years, plant communities gained on average 0.7% in vegetation cover and 0.2% in species number per year, associated with gains in functional and phylogenetic diversity, non-native, Red List, and generalist species. Diversity changes are most pronounced in mire and wetland communities. Differences among habitat types and habitat-change trajectory (stable, successional, disturbed), together with the most recent observation year, explain 2.1%–36.6% of the variation in diversity trends. Habitat-specific gamma diversity showed no general trends and only increased in stable grasslands and successional sparsely vegetated habitats. By integrating habitat types and change trajectories, we reconcile some of the conflicting narratives on local biodiversity change in favour of a more nuanced understanding of the observed variation in local biodiversity change.

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author = {Stephan Kambach and Ute Jandt and Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta and Jose Manuel Álvarez-Martínez and Irena Axmanová and Manuele Bazzichetto and Erwin Bergmeier and Markus Bernhardt-Römermann and Idoia Biurrun and Gianmaria Bonari and Marta Carboni and Marcos Bergmann Carlucci and Maria Laura Carranza and Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini and Alessandro Chiarucci and Milan Chytrý and Gabriella Damasceno and Jürgen Dengler and Michele De Sanctis and Jan Divíšek and Jiří Dolezal and Stefan Dullinger and Franz Essl and Klára Friesová and Veronika Fontana and Emmanuel Garbolino and Michael Glaser and Ana González-Robles and Behlül Güler and Georg J. A. Hähn and Michal Hájek and Tracy Hruska and Estela Illa and Florian Jansen and Steven Jansen and Anke Jentsch and Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and W. Daniel Kissling and Ilona Knollová and Gianalberto Losapio and Udayangani Liu and Jonathan Lenoir and Frederic Lens and Bernd Lenzner and Antonio J. Perea and Laura Méndez and Julie Messier and Akira S. Mori and Francesca Napoleone and Roger Norum and Alexander Novakovskiy and Renske Onstein and Robin J. Pakeman and Josep Peñuelas and Petr Petřík and Remigiusz Pielech and Bruno X. Pinho and Peter Poschlod and Valerijus Rašomavičius and Christiane Roscher and Christian Rossi and Francesco Maria Sabatini and Brody Sandel and David Schellenberger Costa and Wolfgang Schmidt and Serge Sheremetiev and Tanvir Ahmed Shovon and Marko J. Spasojevic and Nathan G. Swenson and Grzegorz Swacha and Rubén Tarifa and Lubomír Tichý and Marcello Tomaselli and Alicia Valdés and Koenraad Van Meerbeek and Vigdis Vandvik and Kiril Vassilev and Martin Večeřa and Evan Weiher and Thomas Wohlgemuth and Helge Bruelheide},
title = {Habitat-specific trends in taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in European plant communities over a century},
journal = {Nature Communications},
year = {2026},
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {4208},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-026-72112-5},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
}· END ·