Co-Extinctions and Co-Compensatory Species Responses to Climate Change Moderate Ecosystem Futures.

ABSTRACT: Consensus has been reached that the sequential loss of biodiversity leads to a non-linear and accelerating decline in ecosystem properties. The form of this relationship, however, is based on theory and empirically derived observations that do not include species co-extinctions. Here, we use data from marine benthic invertebrate communities to parameterise trait-based extinction models that adjust the probability of species extirpation and compensation by including the dependencies between different species across a gradient of climate-driven environmental change. Our simulations reveal that the inclusion of static co-extinctions leads to more pronounced declines in the trajectories of sediment bioturbation-a process of great importance to the functioning of marine ecosystems-than those ob

SUBMITTER: Williams TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12506852 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature