Diverse effects of invasive ecosystem engineers on marine biodiversity and ecosystem functions: A global review and meta‐analysis

Autor: Tamar Guy-Haim, Christos Arvanitidis, Serena Como, Paul J. Somerfield, Tasman P. Crowe, Eva Chatzinikolaou, Devin A. Lyons, Helen Orav-Kotta, Henn Ojaveer, Andrew J. Blight, Jonne Kotta, Gil Rilov, Ana M. Queirós, Paolo Magni
Přispěvatelé: European Commission, University of St Andrews. School of Biology, University of St Andrews. Sediment Ecology Research Group, University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Aquatic Organisms
QH301 Biology
biodiversity-ecosystem functioning
Biodiversity
Introduced species
01 natural sciences
biological diversity
Nutrient flux
systematic review
Abundance (ecology)
General Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change
Generality
Primary production
Ecology
alien
Biota
Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning
Biological diversity
Geography
Ecosystem engineers
sedimentation
Sedimentation
primary production
Invasive
ecosystem engineers
Oceans and Seas
NDAS
Alien
010603 evolutionary biology
Ecosystem engineer
QH301
nutrient flux
Animals
Humans
Environmental Chemistry
Ecosystem
Marine ecosystem
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
14. Life underwater
Decomposition
decomposition
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
15. Life on land
13. Climate action
Systematic review
invasive
Introduced Species
Zdroj: Global Change Biology, 24 (3). pp. 906-924.
Global change biology
24 (2018): 906–924. doi:10.1111/gcb.14007
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Guy-Haim, Tamar; Lyons, Devin A.; Kotta, Jonne; Ojaveer, Henn; Queiros, Ana M.; Chatzinikolaou, Eva; Arvanitidis, Christos; Como, Serena; Magni, Paolo; Blight, Andrew J.; Orav-Kotta, Helen; Somerfield, Paul J.; Crowe, Tasman P.; Rilov, Gil/titolo:Diverse effects of invasive ecosystem engineers on marine biodiversity and ecosystem functions: A global review and meta-analysis/doi:10.1111%2Fgcb.14007/rivista:Global change biology (Print)/anno:2018/pagina_da:906/pagina_a:924/intervallo_pagine:906–924/volume:24
ISSN: 1365-2486
1354-1013
Popis: This research was funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration (FP7/2007-2013) within the Ocean of Tomorrow call under Grant Agreement No.266445 for the project Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life (VECTORS). AMQ and PJS acknowledge support from the UK Natural Environment Research Council and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [grant number NE/L003279/1, Marine Ecosystems Research Programme]. HO and JK were partly funded by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (grant SF0180005s10) and the Estonian Research Council (IUT02-20). Invasive ecosystem engineers (IEE) are potentially one of the most influential types of biological invaders. They are expected to have extensive ecological impacts by altering the physical-chemical structure of ecosystems, thereby changing the rules of existence for a broad range of resident biota. To test the generality of this expectation, we used a global systematic review and meta-analysis to examine IEE effects on the abundance of individual species and communities, biodiversity (using several indices) and ecosystem functions, focusing on marine and estuarine environments. We found that IEE had a significant effect (positive and negative) in most studies testing impacts on individual species, but the overall (cumulative) effect size was small and negative. Many individual studies showed strong IEE effects on community abundance and diversity, but the direction of effects was variable, leading to statistically non-significant overall effects in most categories. In contrast, there was a strong overall effect on most ecosystem functions we examined. IEE negatively affected metabolic functions and primary production, but positively affected nutrient flux, sedimentation and decomposition. We use the results to develop a conceptual model by highlighting pathways whereby IEE impact communities and ecosystem functions, and identify several sources of research bias in the IEE-related invasion literature. Only a few of the studies simultaneously quantified IEE effects on community/diversity and ecosystem functions. Therefore, understanding how IEE may alter biodiversity-function relationships should be a primary focus of future studies of invasion biology. Moreover, the clear effects of IEE on ecosystem functions detected in our study suggest that scientists and environmental managers ought to examine how the effects of IEE might be manifested in the services that marine ecosystems provide to humans. Postprint
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