Local food web management increases resilience and buffers against global change effects on freshwaters.

ABSTRACT: A major challenge for ecological research is to identify ways to improve resilience to climate-induced changes in order to secure the ecosystem functions of natural systems, as well as ecosystem services for human welfare. With respect to aquatic ecosystems, interactions between climate warming and the elevated runoff of humic substances (brownification) may strongly affect ecosystem functions and services. However, we hitherto lack the adaptive management tools needed to counteract such global-scale effects on freshwater ecosystems. Here we show, both experimentally and using monitoring data, that predicted climatic warming and brownification will reduce freshwater quality by exacerbating cyanobacterial growth and toxin levels. Furthermore, in a model based on long-term data from a natura

SUBMITTER: Urrutia-Cordero P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4937379 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature