Predicting effects of multiple interacting global change drivers across trophic levels.

ABSTRACT: Global change encompasses many co-occurring anthropogenic drivers, which can act synergistically or antagonistically on ecological systems. Predicting how different global change drivers simultaneously contribute to observed biodiversity change is a key challenge for ecology and conservation. However, we lack the mechanistic understanding of how multiple global change drivers influence the vital rates of multiple interacting species. We propose that reaction norms, the relationships between a driver and vital rates like growth, mortality, and consumption, provide insights to the underlying mechanisms of community responses to multiple drivers. Understanding how multiple drivers interact to affect demographic rates using a reaction-norm perspective can improve our ability to make prediction

SUBMITTER: van Moorsel SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7614140 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature