生物多样性
营养水平
环境科学
生态学
生态系统
生物量(生态学)
河岸带
分水岭
淡水生态系统
植被(病理学)
碎石
水生生态系统
土地覆盖
土地利用
生态系统服务
生物
栖息地
医学
病理
机器学习
计算机科学
作者
Rebecca Oester,François Keck,Marcelo S. Moretti,Florian Altermatt,Andreas Bruder,Verónica Ferreira
标识
DOI:10.1101/2024.12.10.627188
摘要
Anthropogenic land-cover changes are among the most pressing global threats to both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, jeopardising biodiversity and the critical connections between these systems. Resource flows and trophic interactions intricately link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, with terrestrial-derived detritus playing a foundational role in supporting aquatic food webs. These detrital inputs form essential cross-ecosystem linkages, underpinning key ecological processes and providing vital resources for aquatic communities. Yet, little research has focused on how land-cover changes cascade across this linkage. To better understand how land-cover changes in the watershed influence freshwater detrital food webs, we conducted a meta-analysis of field studies reporting the effects of vegetation changes on freshwater detrital consumers and organic matter decomposition. The results from 144 studies, reporting 1235 comparisons, showed that, overall, land-cover changes in the watershed vegetation, especially through harvest and land-use conversion, have negative effects on aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem processes. These vegetation changes reduced diversity, abundance, and biomass across multiple trophic levels in freshwater detrital food webs. Studies examining multiple organism groups most often observed negative responses across multiple trophic levels, suggesting that the land-cover changes negatively affected multiple detrital food web components simultaneously. Our results also show that outcomes of restoration of watershed vegetation were context-dependent, and no clear trend of improvement was visible. Therefore, conservation of natural riparian and catchment vegetation are key to maintain freshwater ecosystem processes and aquatic biodiversity worldwide, and more efficient and evidence-based restoration measures are urgently needed. As our global synthesis shows that direct human-induced alterations of vegetation type in watersheds have significant negative effects on freshwater detrital food webs, there is a pressing need to consider cross-ecosystem consequences of land-cover changes in conservation and ecosystem management.
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