Functional roles and redundancy of demersal Barents Sea fish: Ecological implications of environmental change.

ABSTRACT: When facing environmental change and intensified anthropogenic impact on marine ecosystems, extensive knowledge of how these systems are functioning is required in order to manage them properly. However, in high-latitude ecosystems, where climate change is expected to have substantial ecological impact, the ecosystem functions of biological species have received little attention, partly due to the limited biological knowledge of Arctic species. Functional traits address the ecosystem functions of member species, allowing the functionality of communities to be characterised and the degree of functional redundancy to be assessed. Ecosystems with higher functional redundancy are expected to be less affected by species loss, and therefore less sensitive to disturbance. Here we highlight and co

SUBMITTER: Aune M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6248947 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature