The impact of climate warming on species diversity across scales: Lessons from experimental meta-ecosystems.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim was to evaluate the effects of climate warming on biodiversity across spatial scales (i.e., α-, β- and γ-diversity) and the effects of patch openness and experimental context on diversity responses.

Location

Global.

Time period

1995-2017.

Major taxa studied

Fungi, invertebrates, phytoplankton, plants, seaweed, soil microbes and zooplankton.

Methods

We compiled data from warming experiments and conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the effects of warming on different components of diversity (such as species richness and equivalent numbers) at different spatial scales (α-, β- and γ-diversity, partitioning β-diversity into species turnover and nestedness components). We also investigated how these effects were modulated by system openness, defin

SUBMITTER: Bastazini VAG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7614025 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature