Data and R codes for the research article "Functional biodiversity loss along natural CO2 gradients". Nature Communications ...

• Main Authors: N, Teixidó, MC, Gambi, V, Parravacini, K, Kroeker, F, Micheli, S, Villéger, E, Ballesteros
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Ocean acidification, biodiversity, climate change, benthic communities, functional biodiversity, Mediterranean, natural CO2 vents; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1475464; https://zenodo.org/record/1475464

This repository contains the data files and R codes used to analyze the data and generate the results for this research article. Nuria Teixidó, Maria Cristina Gambi, Valeriano Parravacini, Kristy Kroeker, Fiorenza Micheli, Sebastien Villéger, Enric Ballesteros (2018) Functional biodiversity loss along natural CO 2 gradients. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07592-1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07592-1 Abstract: The effects of environmental change on biodiversity are still poorly understood. In particular, the consequences of shifts in species composition for marine ecosystem function are largely unknownwe assess the loss of functional diversity, i.e. the range of species biological traits, in benthic marine communities exposed to ocean acidification (OA) by using natural CO 2 vent systems. We found that functional richness is greatly reduced with acidification, and that functional loss is more pronounced than the corresponding decrease in taxonomic diversity. In acidified ...