TY - GEN A1 - Ceulemans, Ruben A1 - Gaedke, Ursula A1 - Klauschies, Toni A1 - Guill, Christian T1 - The effects of functional diversity on biomass production, variability, and resilience of ecosystem functions in a tritrophic system T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Diverse communities can adjust their trait composition to altered environmental conditions, which may strongly influence their dynamics. Previous studies of trait-based models mainly considered only one or two trophic levels, whereas most natural system are at least tritrophic. Therefore, we investigated how the addition of trait variation to each trophic level influences population and community dynamics in a tritrophic model. Examining the phase relationships between species of adjacent trophic levels informs about the strength of top-down or bottom-up control in non-steadystate situations. Phase relationships within a trophic level highlight compensatory dynamical patterns between functionally different species, which are responsible for dampening the community temporal variability. Furthermore, even without trait variation, our tritrophic model always exhibits regions with two alternative states with either weak or strong nutrient exploitation, and correspondingly low or high biomass production at the top level. However, adding trait variation increased the basin of attraction of the high-production state, and decreased the likelihood of a critical transition from the high- to the lowproduction state with no apparent early warning signals. Hence, our study shows that trait variation enhances resource use efficiency, production, stability, and resilience of entire food webs. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 744 KW - early-warning signals KW - top-down control KW - community ecology KW - regime shifts KW - food webs KW - compensatory dynamics KW - consumer diversity KW - metabolic theory KW - rapid evolution KW - stable states Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-435439 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 744 ER -