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Community evolution significantly alters biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships. Co-adapted communities show different productivity and invasion patterns compared to random ones, highlighting eco-evolutionary feedbacks.

Keywords:

Adaptive dynamics eco-evolutionary dynamics invasion productivity species interactions species traits stability

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Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Ecosystem Science

Background:

Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are increasingly recognized as being influenced by evolutionary dynamics.
The precise nature and extent of these evolutionary impacts on BEF relationships are not well understood.

Discussion:

Community adaptation, where traits co-evolve, significantly alters emerging biodiversity-productivity, biodiversity-stability, and biodiversity-invasion relationships compared to random communities.
Co-adapted communities often exhibit less positive biodiversity-productivity relationships due to reduced sampling effects.
While community adaptation has a modest effect on invasion resistance, it markedly increases invasion tolerance, even in high-diversity settings.

Key Insights:

BEF relationships are contingent on ecosystem history and the degree of community adaptation.
Eco-evolutionary feedbacks can invert the direction of BEF relationships observed in random communities.
Co-adapted communities can maintain high invasion tolerance irrespective of their own diversity.

Outlook:

Short-term ecological studies may not accurately predict future ecosystem states once eco-evolutionary feedbacks occur.
Understanding community adaptation is crucial for predicting long-term ecosystem functioning and stability.
Future research should integrate evolutionary dynamics into ecological models to better capture ecosystem responses.