Ocean acidification drives global reshuffling of ecological communities.

ABSTRACT: The paradigm that climate change will alter global marine biodiversity is one of the most widely accepted. Yet, its predictions remain difficult to test because laboratory systems are inadequate at incorporating ecological complexity, and common biodiversity metrics have varying sensitivity to detect change. Here, we test for the prevalence of global responses in biodiversity and community-level change to future climate (acidification and warming) from studies at volcanic CO₂ vents across four major global coastal ecosystems and studies in laboratory mesocosms. We detected globally replicable patterns of species replacements and community reshuffling under ocean acidification in major natural ecosystems, yet species diversity and other common biodiversity metrics were often inse

SUBMITTER: Nagelkerken I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9828364 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature