Spatial synchrony cascades across ecosystem boundaries and up food webs via resource subsidies.

ABSTRACT: Cross-ecosystem subsidies are critical to ecosystem structure and function, especially in recipient ecosystems where they are the primary source of organic matter to the food web. Subsidies are indicative of processes connecting ecosystems and can couple ecological dynamics across system boundaries. However, the degree to which such flows can induce cross-ecosystem cascades of spatial synchrony, the tendency for system fluctuations to be correlated across locations, is not well understood. Synchrony has destabilizing effects on ecosystems, adding to the importance of understanding spatiotemporal patterns of synchrony transmission. In order to understand whether and how spatial synchrony cascades across the marine-terrestrial boundary via resource subsidies, we studied the relationship betw

SUBMITTER: Walter JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10786303 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature