Using a newly introduced framework to measure ecological stressor interactions
Autor: | Vivien Enriquez, Pamela J. Yeh, Mauricio Cruz-Loya, Van M. Savage, Nina Singh, Eleanor S. Diamant, Elif Tekin |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Salinity education.field_of_study Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Stressor Population Temperature Contrast (statistics) Affect (psychology) 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Measure (mathematics) Interaction type Analysis of variance education Psychology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
Zdroj: | Ecology Letters. 23:1391-1403 |
ISSN: | 1461-0248 1461-023X |
Popis: | Understanding how stressors combine to affect population abundances and trajectories is a fundamental ecological problem with increasingly important implications worldwide. Generalisations about interactions among stressors are challenging due to different categorisation methods and how stressors vary across species and systems. Here, we propose using a newly introduced framework to analyse data from the last 25 years on ecological stressor interactions, for example combined effects of temperature, salinity and nutrients on population survival and growth. We contrast our results with the most commonly used existing method - analysis of variance (ANOVA) - and show that ANOVA assumptions are often violated and have inherent limitations for detecting interactions. Moreover, we argue that rescaling - examining relative rather than absolute responses - is critical for ensuring that any interaction measure is independent of the strength of single-stressor effects. In contrast, non-rescaled measures - like ANOVA - find fewer interactions when single-stressor effects are weak. After re-examining 840 two-stressor combinations, we conclude that antagonism and additivity are the most frequent interaction types, in strong contrast to previous reports that synergy dominates yet supportive of more recent studies that find more antagonism. Consequently, measuring and re-assessing the frequency of stressor interaction types is imperative for a better understanding of how stressors affect populations. |
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