Measuring the Response Diversity of Ecological Communities Experiencing Multifarious Environmental Change.

ABSTRACT: The diversity in organismal responses to environmental changes (i.e., response diversity) plays a crucial role in shaping community and ecosystem stability. However, existing measures of response diversity only consider a single environmental variable, whereas natural communities are commonly exposed to changes in multiple environmental variables simultaneously. Thus far, no approach exists to integrate multifarious environmental change and the measurement of response diversity. Here, we show how to consider and quantify response diversity in the context of multifarious environmental change, and in doing so introduce a distinction between response diversity to a defined or anticipated environmental change, and the response capacity to any possible set of (defined or undefined) future envir

SUBMITTER: Polazzo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580112 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature