Extended Data Fig. 5: Relationship between the number of ecosystem types and environmental heterogeneity across the 22 ecosystem functions. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extended Data Fig. 5: Relationship between the number of ecosystem types and environmental heterogeneity across the 22 ecosystem functions.

From: Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

Extended Data Fig. 5: Relationship between the number of ecosystem types and environmental heterogeneity across the 22 ecosystem functions.

Shown is the mean environmental distance between study sites as a function of the number of ecosystem types. The mean environmental distance was computed based on the Gower distance on the basis of a combination of 11 variables related to climatic conditions (mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation and relative humidity), land-use (biomass removal, agricultural inputs and landscape composition), and soil properties (soil organic carbon, pH, C/N-ratio, N/P-ratio, available water capacity). Note that noise has been added to the positions of single data points along the x-axis to improve visibility. Sample size is n = 43 (n = 21 within and n = 22 across ecosystem types, respectively).

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