Workflow for the manuscript "Biodiversity stabilizes ecological communities through statistical-averaging effects rather than compensatory dynamics"
Lei Zhao, China Agricultural University
Shaopeng Wang, Peking University
Reuman Daniel, University of Kansas
There are additional authors that contributed to the manuscript.
This repository provides the workflow that resulted in all the results for the manuscript. The folder 'Results' stored the decomposition results from the original data, which are the base to generate figures in folder 'Figs'.
See 'WorkFlow.R' for the workflow. Run it with your R working directory set to directory it is in. Notice that three dataset files should be downloaded beforehand:
"LTER-grasslands-master-2012.csv", which can be found via https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=edi&identifier=358;
"e120_Plant aboveground biomass data.csv" and "e141_Plant aboveground biomass data", which can be found via https://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/research/data.
We thank contributors to the LTER Network. and the BigBio and BioCON experiments, and Dr. Lauren Hallett for compiling the PSD. We acknowledge funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31901108 and 31988102), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 5222014), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2021YFD190090307), the 2115 Talent Development Program of China Agricultural University, USA National Science Foundation grants 1714195 and 2023474, the James S McDonnell Foundation, and the Humboldt Foundation.