Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age
Abstract Rates at which a community recovers after disturbance, or its resilience, can be accelerated by increased net primary productivity and recolonization dynamics such as recruitment. These mechanisms can vary across biogeographic gradients, such as latitude, suggesting that biogeography is lik...
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crwiley:10.1002/ecy.4259 2024-06-02T08:15:03+00:00 Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age Bonfim, Mariana López, Diana P. Repetto, Michele F. Freestone, Amy L. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico Division of Ocean Sciences Temple University 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4259 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/ecy.4259 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecy.4259 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Ecology volume 105, issue 4 ISSN 0012-9658 1939-9170 journal-article 2024 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4259 2024-05-03T10:48:45Z Abstract Rates at which a community recovers after disturbance, or its resilience, can be accelerated by increased net primary productivity and recolonization dynamics such as recruitment. These mechanisms can vary across biogeographic gradients, such as latitude, suggesting that biogeography is likely important to predicting resilience. To test whether community resilience, informed by functional and compositional recovery, hinges on geographic location, we employed a standardized replicated experiment on marine invertebrate communities across four regions from the tropics to the subarctic zone. Communities assembled naturally on standardized substrate while experiencing distinct levels of biomass removal (no removal, low disturbance, and high disturbance), which opened space for new colonizers, thereby providing a pulse of limited resource to these communities. We then quantified functional (space occupancy and biomass) and compositional recovery from these repeated pulse disturbances across two community assembly timescales (early and late at 3 and 12 months, respectively). We documented latitudinal variation in resilience across 47° latitude, where speed of functional recovery was higher toward lower latitudes yet incomplete at late assembly in the tropics and subtropics. The degree of functional recovery did not coincide with compositional recovery, and regional differences in recruitment and growth likely contributed to functional recovery in these communities. While biogeographic variation in community resilience has been predicted, our results are among the first to examine functional and compositional recovery from disturbance in a single large‐scale standardized experiment. Article in Journal/Newspaper Subarctic Wiley Online Library Ecology |
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Abstract Rates at which a community recovers after disturbance, or its resilience, can be accelerated by increased net primary productivity and recolonization dynamics such as recruitment. These mechanisms can vary across biogeographic gradients, such as latitude, suggesting that biogeography is likely important to predicting resilience. To test whether community resilience, informed by functional and compositional recovery, hinges on geographic location, we employed a standardized replicated experiment on marine invertebrate communities across four regions from the tropics to the subarctic zone. Communities assembled naturally on standardized substrate while experiencing distinct levels of biomass removal (no removal, low disturbance, and high disturbance), which opened space for new colonizers, thereby providing a pulse of limited resource to these communities. We then quantified functional (space occupancy and biomass) and compositional recovery from these repeated pulse disturbances across two community assembly timescales (early and late at 3 and 12 months, respectively). We documented latitudinal variation in resilience across 47° latitude, where speed of functional recovery was higher toward lower latitudes yet incomplete at late assembly in the tropics and subtropics. The degree of functional recovery did not coincide with compositional recovery, and regional differences in recruitment and growth likely contributed to functional recovery in these communities. While biogeographic variation in community resilience has been predicted, our results are among the first to examine functional and compositional recovery from disturbance in a single large‐scale standardized experiment. |
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Bonfim, Mariana López, Diana P. Repetto, Michele F. Freestone, Amy L. Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age |
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Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age |
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Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age |
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Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age |
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Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age |
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Speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age |
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speed and degree of functional and compositional recovery varies with latitude and community age |
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