Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems Export

@article{citeulike:3502139, abstract = {The main drivers of global environmental change (CO2 enrichment, nitrogen deposition, climate, biotic invasions and land use) cause extinctions and alter species distributions, and recent evidence shows that they exert pervasive impacts on various antagonistic and mutualistic interactions among species. In this review, we synthesize data from 688 published studies to show that these drivers often alter competitive interactions among plants and animals, exert multitrophic effects on the decomposer food web, increase intensity of pathogen infection, weaken mutualisms involving plants, and enhance herbivory while having variable effects on predation. A recurrent finding is that there is substantial variability among studies in both the magnitude and direction of effects of any given GEC driver on any given type of biotic interaction. Further, we show that higher order effects among multiple drivers acting simultaneously create challenges in predicting future responses to global environmental change, and that extrapolating these complex impacts across entire networks of species interactions yields unanticipated effects on ecosystems. Finally, we conclude that in order to reliably predict the effects of GEC on community and ecosystem processes, the greatest single challenge will be to determine how biotic and abiotic context alters the direction and magnitude of GEC effects on biotic interactions.}, address = {School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand; Integrative Ecology Group, Estacin Biolgica de Doana, CSIC, Apdo. 1056, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, S901 83 Ume, Sweden}, author = {Tylianakis, Jason M. and Didham, Raphael K. and Bascompte, Jordi and Wardle, David A.}, citeulike-article-id = {3502139}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01250.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/ele/2008/00000011/00000012/art00009}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/121428408/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01250.x}, issn = {1461-0248}, journal = {Ecology Letters}, keywords = {change, climate, competition, inpro, interactions}, month = {December}, number = {12}, pages = {1351--1363}, posted-at = {2009-06-30 03:21:09}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Blackwell Publishing}, title = {Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01250.x}, volume = {11}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3502139 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3502139 N2 - The main drivers of global environmental change (CO2 enrichment, nitrogen deposition, climate, biotic invasions and land use) cause extinctions and alter species distributions, and recent evidence shows that they exert pervasive impacts on various antagonistic and mutualistic interactions among species. In this review, we synthesize data from 688 published studies to show that these drivers often alter competitive interactions among plants and animals, exert multitrophic effects on the decomposer food web, increase intensity of pathogen infection, weaken mutualisms involving plants, and enhance herbivory while having variable effects on predation. A recurrent finding is that there is substantial variability among studies in both the magnitude and direction of effects of any given GEC driver on any given type of biotic interaction. Further, we show that higher order effects among multiple drivers acting simultaneously create challenges in predicting future responses to global environmental change, and that extrapolating these complex impacts across entire networks of species interactions yields unanticipated effects on ecosystems. Finally, we conclude that in order to reliably predict the effects of GEC on community and ecosystem processes, the greatest single challenge will be to determine how biotic and abiotic context alters the direction and magnitude of GEC effects on biotic interactions. IS - 12 JF - Ecology Letters SN - 1461-0248 AD - School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand; Integrative Ecology Group, Estacin Biolgica de Doana, CSIC, Apdo. 1056, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, S901 83 Ume, Sweden EP - 1363 TI - Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems PB - Blackwell Publishing VL - 11 SP - 1351 KW - change KW - climate KW - competition KW - inpro KW - interactions AU - Tylianakis, Jason AU - Didham, Raphael AU - Bascompte, Jordi AU - Wardle, David PY - 2008/12// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01250.x ER -