TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylogenetic clustering in beneficial attributes of tree species directly linked to provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services
AU - Oka, Chihiro
AU - Aiba, Masahiro
AU - Nakashizuka, Tohru
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Rei Shibata and Dr. Michio Oguro for their kind assistance in data processing and visualization. Two anonymous referees provided helpful comments on a previous version of this manuscript. This research was supported by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-15-2[1] Predicting and Assessing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services [PANCES]) of the Ministry of the Environment , Japan.
Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Rei Shibata and Dr. Michio Oguro for their kind assistance in data processing and visualization. Two anonymous referees provided helpful comments on a previous version of this manuscript. This research was supported by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-15-2[1] Predicting and Assessing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services [PANCES]) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Phylogenetic diversity is expected to be an important predictor of ecosystem multifunctionality because distant relatives are often more functionally different than close relatives. However, the general extent of non-random linkages between phylogeny and ecosystem services remains unclear. In this study, we examined phylogenetic clustering and associations of beneficial attributes of tree species that are essential for various aspects of ecosystem services to assess the generality of the phylogenetic bias in ecosystem service provision. Through literature mining, we compiled 15 benefits linked to a wide variety of ecosystem services for 171 tree species common in Japan to examine phylogenetic clustering in the beneficial attributes. In addition, we examined whether taxonomically different species provide different bundles, or suites, of benefits. Significant phylogenetic signals were detected in all 15 beneficial attributes even though some benefits are specific to Japanese culture. Beneficial species overlapped significantly more than random expectation for 25 of the 105 possible combinations of the benefits, whereas they differed significantly for eight combinations of the benefits. Cluster analysis classified the species into five groups by similarity of their beneficial attributes. Distribution of these groups among phylogenetic clades was significantly uneven, indicating that phylogenetically distant species tended to have different bundles of beneficial attributes. Fabids tended to provide more kinds of benefits than species in other clades. Overall our analysis suggests that, at least in tree communities of Japan, phylogenetic diversity can potentially increase ecosystem multifunctionality via complementarity of beneficial attributes among phylogenetically distant species. Future analyses of actual relationships between phylogenetic diversity and multifunctionality of tree communities will provide further insights into the ecological processes sustaining ecosystem multifunctionality.
AB - Phylogenetic diversity is expected to be an important predictor of ecosystem multifunctionality because distant relatives are often more functionally different than close relatives. However, the general extent of non-random linkages between phylogeny and ecosystem services remains unclear. In this study, we examined phylogenetic clustering and associations of beneficial attributes of tree species that are essential for various aspects of ecosystem services to assess the generality of the phylogenetic bias in ecosystem service provision. Through literature mining, we compiled 15 benefits linked to a wide variety of ecosystem services for 171 tree species common in Japan to examine phylogenetic clustering in the beneficial attributes. In addition, we examined whether taxonomically different species provide different bundles, or suites, of benefits. Significant phylogenetic signals were detected in all 15 beneficial attributes even though some benefits are specific to Japanese culture. Beneficial species overlapped significantly more than random expectation for 25 of the 105 possible combinations of the benefits, whereas they differed significantly for eight combinations of the benefits. Cluster analysis classified the species into five groups by similarity of their beneficial attributes. Distribution of these groups among phylogenetic clades was significantly uneven, indicating that phylogenetically distant species tended to have different bundles of beneficial attributes. Fabids tended to provide more kinds of benefits than species in other clades. Overall our analysis suggests that, at least in tree communities of Japan, phylogenetic diversity can potentially increase ecosystem multifunctionality via complementarity of beneficial attributes among phylogenetically distant species. Future analyses of actual relationships between phylogenetic diversity and multifunctionality of tree communities will provide further insights into the ecological processes sustaining ecosystem multifunctionality.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Cultural services
KW - Ecosystem service association
KW - Multifunctionality
KW - Phylogenetic diversity
KW - Phylogenetic signal
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.09.035
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.09.035
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053751012
VL - 96
SP - 477
EP - 495
JO - Ecological Indicators
JF - Ecological Indicators
SN - 1470-160X
ER -