Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines.

Autor: Orr JA; School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland., Vinebrooke RD; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada., Jackson MC; Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK., Kroeker KJ; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA., Kordas RL; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Berkshire, UK., Mantyka-Pringle C; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.; Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada., Van den Brink PJ; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands.; Wageningen Environmental Research, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands., De Laender F; Research Unit of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Namur Institute of Complex Systems, and Institute of Life, Earth, and the Environment, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium., Stoks R; Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium., Holmstrup M; Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark., Matthaei CD; Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand., Monk WA; Environment and Climate Change Canada at Canadian Rivers Institute, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada., Penk MR; School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland., Leuzinger S; Institute for Applied Ecology, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand., Schäfer RB; Quantitative Landscape Ecology, iES-Institute for Environmental Sciences, University Koblenz-Landau, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany., Piggott JJ; School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Proceedings. Biological sciences [Proc Biol Sci] 2020 May 13; Vol. 287 (1926), pp. 20200421. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 06.
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0421
Abstrakt: Anthropogenic environmental changes, or 'stressors', increasingly threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning worldwide. Multiple-stressor research is a rapidly expanding field of science that seeks to understand and ultimately predict the interactions between stressors. Reviews and meta-analyses of the primary scientific literature have largely been specific to either freshwater, marine or terrestrial ecology, or ecotoxicology. In this cross-disciplinary study, we review the state of knowledge within and among these disciplines to highlight commonality and division in multiple-stressor research. Our review goes beyond a description of previous research by using quantitative bibliometric analysis to identify the division between disciplines and link previously disconnected research communities. Towards a unified research framework, we discuss the shared goal of increased realism through both ecological and temporal complexity, with the overarching aim of improving predictive power. In a rapidly changing world, advancing our understanding of the cumulative ecological impacts of multiple stressors is critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. Identifying and overcoming the barriers to interdisciplinary knowledge exchange is necessary in rising to this challenge. Division between ecosystem types and disciplines is largely a human creation. Species and stressors cross these borders and so should the scientists who study them.
Databáze: MEDLINE