Increasing Diversity and Biotic Homogenization of Lake Plankton During Recovery from Acidification DOI

Shuyu Jiang,

Ting Hu,

Wenqian Zhao

et al.

SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2022

Determining biodiversity responses to environmental change, such as acidification, is critical for ecosystem projections under future global change scenarios. Here, we analyzed the community compositions of phytoplankton, crustaceans and rotifers in 28 lakes Adirondack Park, USA, during 1994-2012, examined spatiotemporal trends their alpha beta diversity recovery from acidification. For all plankton assemblages, Shannon increased towards recent years high lake pH, there was an increasing dissimilarity with pH changes. The spatial mean Bray-Curtis dissimilarities across decreased over time phytoplankton leading increase homogenization. Such a homogenization cooccurred however overall this region, which contrasts previous classic view that mainly driven by loss species results loss. We further observed lower temporal low-pH rotifers, but not phytoplankton. Generally, three taxonomic groups were primarily lake-water ion variables, also constrained nutrients climate. Collectively, our show how why vary space along acidification recovery, highlight importance studies combined long-term monitoring programs assessing disturbed ecosystems.

Language: Английский

Metrics matter: Multiple diversity metrics at different spatial scales are needed to understand species diversity in urban environments DOI
Kathryn A. O’Shaughnessy, Antony M. Knights, Stephen J. Hawkins

et al.

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 895, P. 164958 - 164958

Published: June 16, 2023

Language: Английский

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Bridging theory and experiments of priority effects DOI Creative Commons
Heng‐Xing Zou, Volker H. W. Rudolf

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 38(12), P. 1203 - 1216

Published: Aug. 24, 2023

Language: Английский

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Heterogeneity in the isolation of patches may be essential for the action of metacommunity mechanisms DOI Creative Commons
Ana Inés Borthagaray, David Cunillera‐Montcusí, Jordi Bou

et al.

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: March 31, 2023

The spatial isolation gradient of communities and the in species dispersal ability are recognized as determinants biodiversity metacommunities. In spite this, mean field models, spatially explicit experiments were mainly focused on idealized arrangements leaving aside combining role gradients metacommunity processes. Consequently, we have an incipient understanding real arrangement patterns. We focus six metacommunities for which confident information about water bodies is available. Using coalescent models null that randomize location bodies, estimated potential effect landscape its dependence ability. At extremely low or high abilities, ponds does not influence diversity because different equally affected by incoming dispersal. intermediate peripheral present a much lower richness higher beta than central communities. Moreover, from landscapes host more randomized landscapes, result determined heterogeneity geographic gradient, mass effects systematically increase local decrease diversity. However, patches only has large importance processes at ensures access to locations but limits isolated ongoing reduction extent simplification may consequently undermine support biodiversity, something should be explicitly considered preserving restoring strategies.

Language: Английский

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Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities DOI
Heng‐Xing Zou, Volker H. W. Rudolf

The American Naturalist, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 202(2), P. 140 - 151

Published: March 20, 2023

The arrival order of species frequently determines the outcome their interactions. This phenomenon, called priority effect, is ubiquitous in nature and local community structure, but we know surprisingly little about how it influences biodiversity across different spatial scales. Here, use a seasonal metacommunity model to show that patterns homogenizing effect high dispersal depend on specific mechanisms underlying effects. When effects are driven only by positive frequency dependence, dispersal-diversity relationships sensitive initial conditions generally hump-shaped relationship: declines when rates become allow dominant competitor exclude other patches. spatiotemporal variation phenological differences alters species' interaction strengths (trait-dependent effects), local, regional, temporal diversity insensitive dispersal, regardless numeric advantage. Thus, trait-dependent can strongly reduce biodiversity, preventing homogenization metacommunities. Our results suggest an alternative mechanism maintains regional without environmental heterogeneity, highlighting accounting for fundamental understanding biodiversity.

Language: Английский

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Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales DOI Creative Commons
Christopher P. Catano, Jonathan T. Bauer, Tyler Bassett

et al.

Ecology Letters, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 28(3)

Published: March 1, 2025

Community ecology remains focused on interactions at small scales, which limits causal understanding of how regional and local processes interact to mediate biodiversity changes. We hypothesise that species pool size immigration are two altering the balance between niche selection drift cause variation in plant diversity. manipulated richness number seeds sown (species respectively) into 12 grasslands across a landscape soil moisture gradient. Greater smaller pools increased composition explained by gradients but resulted greater erosion α-diversity spatial β-diversity over time. Our results suggest constraints colonisation make community assembly more variable help maintain diversity limiting biotic homogenisation. This study provides large-scale experimental evidence contexts can alter relative importance fundamental shaping change scales.

Language: Английский

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A geometric approach to beta diversity DOI
Chuliang Song, Muyang Lu, Joseph Bennett

et al.

Ecological Monographs, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 95(1)

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Abstract Beta diversity—the variation among community compositions in a region—is fundamental measure of biodiversity. Most classic measures have posited that beta diversity is maximized when each has distinct, nonoverlapping set species. However, this assumption overlooks the ecological significance species interactions and non‐additivity systems, where function behavior depend on other community. Here, we introduce geometric approach to as hypervolume embedding metacommunity. Besides considering compositional distinctiveness metrics, explicitly incorporates associations captures idea adding unique, species‐rich metacommunity increases diversity. We show our closely linked naturally extends previous information‐ variation‐based measures. Additionally, provide unifying framework for widely adopted extensions Applying empirical data, address two long‐standing questions research—the latitudinal pattern effect sampling effort—and present novel insights were previously obscured by limitations approaches. In sum, offers new complementary perspective diversity, immediately applicable existing holds promise advancing understanding complex relationships between composition, ecosystem functioning, stability.

Language: Английский

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Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of disturbed metacommunities: A mechanistic modeling approach to species resistance and resilience strategies in drying river networks DOI Creative Commons
Lysandre Journiac, Franck Jabot, Claire Jacquet

et al.

Ecological Modelling, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 506, P. 111136 - 111136

Published: May 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Coupling Environmental Factors and Climate Change: Impacts on Plants and Vegetation Growth Patterns in Ecologically Sensitive Regions DOI
Alevcan Kaplan, Muhammad Nauman Khan,

Khizar Hayat

et al.

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Evaluating the biological validity of European river typology systems with least disturbed benthic macroinvertebrate communities DOI
Jonathan F. Jupke, Sebastian Birk, Mario Álvarez‐Cabria

et al.

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 842, P. 156689 - 156689

Published: June 17, 2022

Language: Английский

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Metapopulations, the inflationary effect, and consequences for public health DOI
Nicholas Kortessis, Gregory E. Glass, Andrew Gonzalez

et al.

The American Naturalist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 205(3), P. 342 - 359

Published: Nov. 6, 2024

AbstractThe metapopulation concept offers significant explanatory power in ecology and evolutionary biology. Metapopulations, a set of spatially distributed populations linked by dispersal, their community ecosystem level analogs, metacommunity meta-ecosystem models, tend to be more stable regionally than locally. This fact is largely attributable the interplay spatiotemporal heterogeneity dispersal (the inflationary effect). We highlight this underappreciated (but essential) role biology, present novel expression for quantifying defining effect, provide mechanistic interpretation how it arises impacts population growth abundance. illustrate effect with examples from infectious disease dynamics, including hypothesis that policy decisions made during COVID-19 pandemic generated enhanced spread disease. finish noting generates emergent processes at large scales across many topics history ecology, as diverse natural enemy-victim species coexistence, conservation Embracing complexity vital future research on persistence populations.

Language: Английский

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