Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.

ABSTRACT: Human impacts such as habitat loss, climate change and biological invasions are radically altering biodiversity, with greater effects projected into the future. Evidence suggests human impacts may differ substantially between terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, but the reasons for these differences are poorly understood. We propose an integrative approach to explain these differences by linking impacts to four fundamental processes that structure communities: dispersal, speciation, species-level selection and ecological drift. Our goal is to provide process-based insights into why human impacts, and responses to impacts, may differ across ecosystem types using a mechanistic, eco-evolutionary comparative framework. To enable these insights, we review and synthesise (i) how the four proce

SUBMITTER: McFadden IR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107666 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature