DNA from lake sediments reveals long-term ecosystem changes after a biological invasion
International audience What are the long-term consequences of invasive species? After invasion, how long do ecosystems require to reach a new equilibrium? Answering these questions requires long-term, high-resolution data that are vanishingly rare. We combined the analysis of environmental DNA extra...
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International audience What are the long-term consequences of invasive species? After invasion, how long do ecosystems require to reach a new equilibrium? Answering these questions requires long-term, high-resolution data that are vanishingly rare. We combined the analysis of environmental DNA extracted from a lake sediment core, coprophilous fungi, and sedimentological analyses to reconstruct 600 years of ecosystem dynamics on a sub-Antarctic island and to identify the impact of invasive rabbits. Plant communities remained stable from AD 1400 until the 1940s, when the DNA of invasive rabbits was detected in sediments. Rabbit detection corresponded to abrupt changes of plant communities, with a continuous decline of a dominant plant species. Furthermore, erosion rate abruptly increased with rabbit abundance. Rabbit impacts were very fast and were stronger than the effects of climate change during the 20th century. Lake sediments can allow an integrated temporal analysis of ecosystems, revealing the impact of invasive species over time and improving our understanding of underlying mechanisms. |
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DNA from lake sediments reveals long-term ecosystem changes after a biological invasion |
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DNA from lake sediments reveals long-term ecosystem changes after a biological invasion |
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.8468iu 2023-05-15T13:50:08+02:00 DNA from lake sediments reveals long-term ecosystem changes after a biological invasion Ficetola, Gentile Francesco Poulenard, Jérôme Sabatier, Pierre Messager, Erwan Gielly, Ludovic Leloup, Anouk Etienne, David Bakke, Jostein Malet, Emmanuel Fanget, Bernard Støren, Eivind Reyss, Jean-Louis Taberlet, Pierre Arnaud, Fabien Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA ) Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ) Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques et Ecosystèmes Limniques (CARRTEL) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry ) Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM) Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM) Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (. - 2019) (UNS) COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Océan et Interfaces (OCEANIS) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) ESKER project IPEV, the French Polar Institute 1094-PALAS 2018-05-09 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar4292 https://hal-sde.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01878587/file/eaar4292.full.pdf https://hal-sde.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01878587 en eng HAL CCSD American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) hal-01878587 WOS: 000432440600023 PUBMED: 29750197 doi:10.1126/sciadv.aar4292 10670/1.8468iu https://hal-sde.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01878587/file/eaar4292.full.pdf https://hal-sde.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01878587 lic_creative-commons other Archive Ouverte d'INRAE ISSN: 2375-2548 EISSN: 2375-2548 Science Advances Science Advances , American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018, 4 (5), 9p. ⟨10.1126/sciadv.aar4292⟩ C2FN envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar4292 2023-01-22T17:06:21Z International audience What are the long-term consequences of invasive species? After invasion, how long do ecosystems require to reach a new equilibrium? Answering these questions requires long-term, high-resolution data that are vanishingly rare. We combined the analysis of environmental DNA extracted from a lake sediment core, coprophilous fungi, and sedimentological analyses to reconstruct 600 years of ecosystem dynamics on a sub-Antarctic island and to identify the impact of invasive rabbits. Plant communities remained stable from AD 1400 until the 1940s, when the DNA of invasive rabbits was detected in sediments. Rabbit detection corresponded to abrupt changes of plant communities, with a continuous decline of a dominant plant species. Furthermore, erosion rate abruptly increased with rabbit abundance. Rabbit impacts were very fast and were stronger than the effects of climate change during the 20th century. Lake sediments can allow an integrated temporal analysis of ecosystems, revealing the impact of invasive species over time and improving our understanding of underlying mechanisms. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Unknown Antarctic Science Advances 4 5 |