Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control to climate change.

ABSTRACT: Increased climate variability as a result of anthropogenic climate change can threaten the functioning of ecosystem services. However, diverse responses to climate change among species (response diversity) can provide ecosystems with resilience to this growing threat. Measuring and managing response diversity and resilience to global change are key ecological challenges. Here, we develop a novel index of climate resilience of ecosystem services, exemplified by the thermal resilience of predator communities providing biological pest control. Field assays revealed substantial differences in the temperature-dependent activity of predator species and indices of thermal resilience varied among predator communities occupying different fields. Predator assemblages with higher thermal resilience p

SUBMITTER: Feit B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8150070 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature