Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities

Autor: J. Emmett Duffy, Meredith S. Diskin, Adriana Vergés, Lindsay C. Gaskins, John J. Stachowicz, Katrin Reiss, Paige G. Ross, Olivia J. Graham, Brent B. Hughes, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Pablo Jorgensen, Matthew A. Whalen, Kun-Seop Lee, Ross Whippo, Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek, Holger Jänes, Martin Thiel, Elrika D’Souza, Mallarie E. Yeager, Augusto A. V. Flores, O. Kennedy Rhoades, Camilla Bertolini, Rod M. Connolly, Kevin A. Hovel, Janina Seemann, Aaron W. E. Galloway, Max T. Robinson, Midoli Bresch, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Shelby L. Ziegler, Thomas A. Schlacher, Erin Aiello, Lane N. Johnston, Wendel W. Raymond, Michael Rasheed, Teresa Alcoverro, Brian R. Silliman, F. Joel Fodrie, Brendan P. Kelaher, Oscar Pino, Christopher J. Patrick, Delbert L. Smee, Clara M. Hereu, Kristin M. Hultgren, Andrew H. Altieri, Andrew D. Olds, Brendan S. Lanham, Paul E. Carnell, Christopher J. Henderson, Jennifer K. O'Leary, Dean S. Janiak, Nessa E. O'Connor, Francesca Rossi, Mathieu Cusson, Alistair G. B. Poore, Stéphanie Cimon, Zachary L. Monteith, A. Randall Hughes, Torrance C. Hanley, Peter I. Macreadie, Margot Hessing-Lewis, Bree K. Yednock, Paul H. York, Claudia Kruschel, Richard K. F. Unsworth, Enrique Lozano-Álvarez, Fabio Bulleri
Přispěvatelé: Ecology and Conservation Science for Sustainable Seas (ECOSEAS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Centro de Estudis Avanzados de Blanes, Department of Marine Ecology, Department of Biology [Pisa], University of Pisa - Università di Pisa
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Male
ECOLOGIA MARINHA
seagrass
Climate
Biodiversity
[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics
Phylogenetics and taxonomy

01 natural sciences
Global Warming
Food chain
Biomass
Macroecology
Biomass (ecology)
Multidisciplinary
Alismatales
Geography
Ecology
[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering
Fishes
Biological Sciences
Latitudinal gradients
biogeography
latitudinal gradients
macroecology
trophic processes
Habitat
Biogeography
Trophic processes
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
Female
Food Chain
[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes
Fisheries
010603 evolutionary biology
Animals
Humans
Ecosystem
Marine ecosystem
14. Life underwater
Life Below Water
Seagrass
Consumption (economics)
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Global warming
15. Life on land
[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society
Climate Action
13. Climate action
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 117, iss 45
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, National Academy of Sciences, 2020, 117 (45), pp.28160-28166. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2005255117⟩
Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
instacron:USP
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
instname
ISSN: 0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005255117⟩
Popis: Este artículo contiene 7 páginas, 3 figuras, 1 tabla.
The global distribution of primary production and consumption by humans (fisheries) is well-documented, but we have no map linking the central ecological process of consumption within food webs to temperature and other ecological drivers. Using standardized assays that span 105° of latitude on four continents, we show that rates of bait consumption by generalist predators in shallow marine ecosystems are tightly linked to both temperature and the composition of consumer assemblages. Unexpectedly, rates of consumption peaked at midlatitudes (25 to 35°) in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres across both seagrass and unvegetated sediment habitats. This pattern contrasts with terrestrial systems, where biotic interactions reportedly weaken away from the equator, but it parallels an emerging pattern of a subtropical peak in marine biodiversity. The higher consumption at midlatitudes was closely related to the type of consumers present, which explained rates of consumption better than consumer density, biomass, species diversity, or habitat. Indeed, the apparent effect of temperature on consumption was mostly driven by temperature-associated turnover in consumer community composition. Our findings reinforce the key influence of climate warming on altered species composition and highlight its implications for the functioning of Earth’s ecosystems.
We acknowledge funding from the Smithsonian Institution and the Tula Foundation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE