Climate Impacts on Lake Food-Webs Are Mediated by Biological Invasions.

ABSTRACT: Climate change and biological invasions are among the most important drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem change. Despite major advances in understanding their ecological impacts, these drivers are often considered individually, overlooking their possible complex interrelationship. By applying structural equation modeling to an extensive nationwide dataset of 430 fish communities across 257 French lakes, we investigated how taxonomic, size, and trophic diversities are impacted by climate warming and exotic species occurrence. Our goal was to compare their relative signature or lasting impacts after these factors had taken effect and to determine whether climate warming and biological invasions mediate the current state of community diversities. Drawing on a set of interconnected hypothese

SUBMITTER: Leclerc C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11948447 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature