Competitive reshuffling
The nature of community dynamics differed in the W global change treatment. Instead of increased dominance and a decline in evenness, species groups reshuffled in abundance whereby the dominant species declined in cover over time, while subdominant and rare species increased, and the cover of moderate species did not change (Fig 1, Table 1). Furthermore, this was the only treatment where we observed a change in the relative abundance of the rare species group over time.