Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change

Ecology Letters, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 25(2), С. 555 - 569

Опубликована: Дек. 2, 2021

Abstract Three decades of research have demonstrated that biodiversity can promote the functioning ecosystems. Yet, it is unclear whether positive effects on ecosystem will persist under various types global environmental change drivers. We conducted a meta‐analysis 46 factorial experiments manipulating both species richness and environment to test how drivers (i.e. warming, drought, nutrient addition or CO 2 enrichment) modulated effect multiple functions across three taxonomic groups (microbes, phytoplankton plants). found increased in ambient manipulated environments, but often not same degree. In particular, were larger stressful environments induced by drivers, indicating high‐diversity communities more resistant change. Using subset studies, we also mainly driven interspecific complementarity these over time environments. Our findings support conservation as key strategy for sustainable management face

Язык: Английский

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Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change

Environmental Reviews, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 29(2), С. 119 - 141

Опубликована: Дек. 7, 2020

Unprecedented rates of introduction and spread non-native species pose burgeoning challenges to biodiversity, natural resource management, regional economies, human health. Current biosecurity efforts are failing keep pace with globalization, revealing critical gaps in our understanding response invasions. Here, we identify four priority areas advance invasion science the face rapid global environmental change. First, should strive develop a more comprehensive framework for predicting how behavior, abundance, interspecific interactions vary relation conditions receiving environments these factors govern ecological impacts invasion. A second is understand potential synergistic effects multiple co-occurring stressors— particularly involving climate change—on establishment impact species. Climate adaptation mitigation strategies will need consider possible consequences promoting species, appropriate management responses be developed. The third address taxonomic impediment. ability detect evaluate risks compromised by growing deficit expertise, which cannot adequately compensated new molecular technologies alone. Management become increasingly challenging unless academia, industry, governments train employ personnel taxonomy systematics. Fourth, recommend that internationally cooperative bridgehead dispersal networks, organisms tend invade regions from locations where they have already established. Cooperation among countries eradicate or control established yield greater benefit than independent attempts individual exclude arriving establishing.

Язык: Английский

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Multiple anthropogenic pressures eliminate the effects of soil microbial diversity on ecosystem functions in experimental microcosms

Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 13(1)

Опубликована: Июль 23, 2022

Abstract Biodiversity is crucial for the provision of ecosystem functions. However, ecosystems are now exposed to a rapidly growing number anthropogenic pressures, and it remains unknown whether biodiversity can still promote functions under multifaceted pressures. Here we investigated effects soil microbial diversity on properties when faced with an increasing simultaneous global change factors in experimental microcosms. Higher had positive effect no or few (i.e., 1–4) were applied, but this was eliminated by co-occurrence numerous factors. This attributable reduction fungal abundance relative ecological cluster coexisting bacterial taxa. Our study indicates that reducing pressures should be goal management, addition conservation.

Язык: Английский

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Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide

Nature Climate Change, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 13(5), С. 478 - 483

Опубликована: Март 16, 2023

Increasing the number of environmental stressors could decrease ecosystem functioning in soils. Yet this relationship has never been globally assessed outside laboratory experiments. Here, using two independent global standardized field surveys, and a range natural human factors, we test between exceeding different critical thresholds maintenance multiple services across biomes. Our analysis shows that, stressors, from medium levels (>50%), negatively significantly correlates with impacts on services, that crossing high-level threshold (over 75% maximum observed levels), reduces soil biodiversity globally. The >75% was consistently seen as an important predictor therefore improving prediction functioning. findings highlight need to reduce dimensionality footprint ecosystems conserve function.

Язык: Английский

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Simplified microbial network reduced microbial structure stability and soil functionality in alpine grassland along a natural aridity gradient

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 191, С. 109366 - 109366

Опубликована: Фев. 13, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 98(4), С. 983 - 1002

Опубликована: Март 1, 2023

ABSTRACT Ecologists routinely use statistical models to detect and explain interactions among ecological drivers, with a goal evaluate whether an effect of interest changes in sign or magnitude different contexts. Two fundamental properties are often overlooked during the process hypothesising, visualising interpreting between drivers: measurement scale – response is analysed on additive multiplicative scale, such as ratio logarithmic scale; symmetry dependencies considered both directions. Overlooking these can lead one more three inferential errors: misinterpretation ( i ) detection (Type‐D error), ii modification (Type‐S error); iii misidentification underlying processes (Type‐A error). We illustrate each errors broad range questions applied empirical simulated data sets. demonstrate how meta‐analysis, widely used approach that seeks explicitly characterise context dependence, especially prone all errors. Based insights, we propose guidelines improve hypothesis generation, testing, visualisation interpretation ecology.

Язык: Английский

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Biodiversity conservation in the context of climate change: Facing challenges and management strategies

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 937, С. 173377 - 173377

Опубликована: Май 23, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Sustainable land management enhances ecological and economic multifunctionality under ambient and future climate

Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15(1)

Опубликована: Июнь 10, 2024

Язык: Английский

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A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

Advances in ecological research/Advances in Ecological Research, Год журнала: 2019, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 54

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2019

Язык: Английский

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Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 287(1939), С. 20202063 - 20202063

Опубликована: Ноя. 25, 2020

Plant diversity has a strong impact on plethora of ecosystem functions and services, especially carbon (C) storage. However, the potential context-dependency biodiversity effects across types, environmental conditions pools remains largely unknown. In this study, we performed meta-analysis by collecting data from 95 biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) studies 60 sites to explore plant different C pools, including aboveground belowground biomass, soil microbial biomass content types. The results showed that storage was significantly enhanced diversity, with stronger than content. Moreover, response magnitudes increased level species richness experimental duration all ecosystems. were more pronounced in grasslands forests. Furthermore, aridity index forests, suggesting climate change might modulate effects, which are under wetter but weaker arid conditions. Taken together, these provide novel insights into important role critical types contexts.

Язык: Английский

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