SIQUEIRA, Tadeu, Charles P. HAWKINS, Julian D. OLDEN, Jonathan TONKIN, Lise COMTE, Victor S. SAITO, Thomas L. ANDERSON, Gedimar P. BARBOSA, Nuria BONADA, Claudia C. BONECKER, Miguel CANEDO-ARGUEELLES, Thibault DATRY, Michael B. FLINN, Pau FORTUNO, Gretchen A. GERRISH, Peter HAASE, Matthew J. HILL, James M. HOOD, Kaisa-Leena HUTTUNEN, Michael J. JEFFRIES, Timo MUOTKA, Daniel R. DONNELL, Riku PAAVOLA, Petr PAŘIL, Michael J. PATERSON, Christopher J. PATRICK, Gilmar PERBICHE-NEVES, Luzia C. RODRIGUES, Susanne C. SCHNEIDER, Michal STRAKA and Albert RUHI. Understanding temporal variability across trophic levels and spatial scales in freshwater ecosystems. Ecology. HOBOKEN: Ecological Society of America, 2024, vol. 105, No 2, p. "e4219", 15 pp. ISSN 0012-9658. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4219.
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Original name Understanding temporal variability across trophic levels and spatial scales in freshwater ecosystems
Authors SIQUEIRA, Tadeu (guarantor), Charles P. HAWKINS, Julian D. OLDEN, Jonathan TONKIN, Lise COMTE, Victor S. SAITO, Thomas L. ANDERSON, Gedimar P. BARBOSA, Nuria BONADA, Claudia C. BONECKER, Miguel CANEDO-ARGUEELLES, Thibault DATRY, Michael B. FLINN, Pau FORTUNO, Gretchen A. GERRISH, Peter HAASE, Matthew J. HILL, James M. HOOD, Kaisa-Leena HUTTUNEN, Michael J. JEFFRIES, Timo MUOTKA, Daniel R. DONNELL, Riku PAAVOLA, Petr PAŘIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Michael J. PATERSON, Christopher J. PATRICK, Gilmar PERBICHE-NEVES, Luzia C. RODRIGUES, Susanne C. SCHNEIDER, Michal STRAKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Albert RUHI.
Edition Ecology, HOBOKEN, Ecological Society of America, 2024, 0012-9658.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.800 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4219
UT WoS 001126444300001
Keywords in English community synchrony; compensatory dynamics; international long-term ecological research (ILTER); metacommunities; mobile consumers; Moran effect; portfolio effect; temporal variability
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Abstract
A tenet of ecology is that temporal variability in ecological structure and processes tends to decrease with increasing spatial scales (from locales to regions) and levels of biological organization (from populations to communities). However, patterns in temporal variability across trophic levels and the mechanisms that produce them remain poorly understood. Here we analyzed the abundance time series of spatially structured communities (i.e., metacommunities) spanning basal resources to top predators from 355 freshwater sites across three continents. Specifically, we used a hierarchical partitioning method to disentangle the propagation of temporal variability in abundance across spatial scales and trophic levels. We then used structural equation modeling to determine if the strength and direction of relationships between temporal variability, synchrony, biodiversity, and environmental and spatial settings depended on trophic level and spatial scale. We found that temporal variability in abundance decreased from producers to tertiary consumers but did so mainly at the local scale. Species population synchrony within sites increased with trophic level, whereas synchrony among communities decreased. At the local scale, temporal variability in precipitation and species diversity were associated with population variability (linear partial coefficient, beta = 0.23) and population synchrony (beta = -0.39) similarly across trophic levels, respectively. At the regional scale, community synchrony was not related to climatic or spatial predictors, but the strength of relationships between metacommunity variability and community synchrony decreased systematically from top predators (beta = 0.73) to secondary consumers (beta = 0.54), to primary consumers (beta = 0.30) to producers (beta = 0). Our results suggest that mobile predators may often stabilize metacommunities by buffering variability that originates at the base of food webs. This finding illustrates that the trophic structure of metacommunities, which integrates variation in organismal body size and its correlates, should be considered when investigating ecological stability in natural systems. More broadly, our work advances the notion that temporal stability is an emergent property of ecosystems that may be threatened in complex ways by biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation.
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GA23-05268S, research and development projectName: Souvislost mezi oteplováním klimatu a rostoucí druhovou bohatostí bezobratlých v tekoucích vodách: od historických dat po experimenty
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Linking climate warming to increasing invertebrate species richness in running waters: from historical data to experiments
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