Planktonic functional diversity changes in synchrony with lake ecosystem state.

ABSTRACT: Managing ecosystems to effectively preserve function and services requires reliable tools that can infer changes in the stability and dynamics of a system. Conceptually, functional diversity (FD) appears as a sensitive and viable monitoring metric stemming from suggestions that FD is a universally important measure of biodiversity and has a mechanistic influence on ecological processes. It is however unclear whether changes in FD consistently occur prior to state responses or vice versa, with no current work on the temporal relationship between FD and state to support a transition towards trait-based indicators. There is consequently a knowledge gap regarding when functioning changes relative to biodiversity change and where FD change falls in that sequence. We therefore examine the lagged

SUBMITTER: O'Brien DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100413 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature