Extended Data Fig. 6: Comparison of environmental heterogeneity within and across ecosystem types. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extended Data Fig. 6: Comparison of environmental heterogeneity within and across ecosystem types.

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

Extended Data Fig. 6: Comparison of environmental heterogeneity within and across ecosystem types.

a-l, Comparison of the mean environmental distance (based on the Gower distance) between study sites within the same ecosystem types and between study sites across ecosystem types based on (a) a combination of all 11 environmental variables, and (b-l) after excluding each of the 11 environmental variables from the composite index of environmental heterogeneity. b-d, variables reflecting climate parameters. e-g, variables reflecting land-use dimensions. h-l, variables reflecting soil properties. Each pair of dots represents the measures within and across ecosystem types for one of the 22 ecosystem functions. Note that the within-ecosystem comparison for biomass stocks of microorganisms is missing, because data were only available for one replicate per ecosystem type.

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