FACILITÓN

Plant facilitation, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

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The FACILITÓN project, funded by the Prometeo program of the Generalitat Valenciana, is aimed to integrate the niche-expansion effect of facilitation across biological domains (prokaryotes and eukaryotes), including climate change, biodiversity maintenance and the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We specifically hypothesize that facilitation maintains biodiversity and ecosystem functions at the cost of increasing climatic debt.

WP1. Estimation of climatic disequilibrium driven by facilitation

WP2. Estimation of functional and phylogenetic constraints in the rewiring of facilitation interactions

WP3. Estimation of the different components of biodiversity across biological domains altered by facilitation

WP4. Estimation of ecosystem functions triggered by facilitation

4.1. Facilitation and ecosystem functions performed by plants

4.2. Facilitation and ecosystem functions performed by soil microbiota

4.3. Estimation of the relative contribution of each taxa to the Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function relationship