Interestingly, compensatory dynamics between species, where rare species increased in biomass after dominant species decreased in biomass following the disturbance, occurred in both model simulations and empirical data.

with @marenstriebel.bsky.social @hillebr1.bsky.social & others (not on bluesky)

Using model simulations of multi-species communities and empirical data from a multi-site experiment, we show that species contributions to stability are highly context-dependent and vary not only with disturbance type, but also in time and space.

We argue that species can stabilise community properties to disturbance in two ways: (i) by being more tolerant than the community on average, increasing in biomass and in proportion, or (ii) by being less sensitive to disturbance than other species, and decreasing proportionately less in biomass.