气候变化
生态学
物种丰富度
降水
环境科学
生物
地理
气象学
作者
Junna Wang,Nancy B. Grimm,Sharon P. Lawler,Xiaoli Dong
标识
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2218501120
摘要
While an array of ecological mechanisms has been shown to stabilize natural community dynamics, how the effectiveness of these mechanisms—including both their direction (stabilizing vs. destabilizing) and strength—shifts under a changing climate remains unknown. Using a 35-y dataset (1985 to 2019) from a desert stream in central Arizona (USA), we found that as annual mean air temperature rose 1°C and annual mean precipitation reduced by 40% over the last two decades, macroinvertebrate communities experienced dramatic changes, from relatively stable states during the first 15 y of this study to wildly fluctuating states highly sensitive to climate variability in the last 10 y. Asynchronous species responses to climatic variability, the primary mechanism historically undergirding community stability, greatly weakened. The emerging climate regime—specifically, concurrent warming and prolonged multiyear drought—resulted in community-wide synchronous responses and reduced taxa richness. Diversity loss and new establishment of competitors reorganized species interactions. Unlike manipulative experiments that often suggest stabilizing roles of species interactions, we found that reorganized species interactions switched from stabilizing to destabilizing influences, further amplifying community fluctuations. Our study provides evidence of climate change-induced modifications of mechanisms underpinning long-term community stability, resulting in an overall destabilizing effect.
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