A Classification Framework to Assess Ecological, Biogeochemical, and Hydrologic Synchrony and Asynchrony.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystems in the Anthropocene face pressures from multiple, interacting forms of environmental change. These pressures, resulting from land use change, altered hydrologic regimes, and climate change, will likely change the synchrony of ecosystem processes as distinct components of ecosystems are impacted in different ways. However, discipline-specific definitions and ad hoc methods for identifying synchrony and asynchrony have limited broader synthesis of this concept among studies and across disciplines. Drawing on concepts from ecology, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry, we offer a unifying definition of synchrony for ecosystem science and propose a classification framework for synchrony and asynchrony of ecosystem processes. This framework classifies the relationship

SUBMITTER: Seybold EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9671131 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature