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Drivers of stability in plankton communities: dominance, asynchrony, and averaging effects across temporal, spatial and trophic scales

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The origins of ecosystem stability have long intrigued ecologists. Recent theoretical advancements highlight three primary mechanisms driving stability: dominance, asynchrony and averaging. While plant community stability has been extensively studied, our understanding of marine community stability remains limited. Plankton, as key components of marine
Guido Occhipinti   +4 more
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Integrating and assessing metacommunity drivers of ecosystem function and resilience in benthic algal systems

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Understanding the scales and mechanisms by which species composition interacts with ecosystem functions is critical for forecasting the effects of environmental perturbations on ecosystem services. However, the linkages between what regulates the ecosystem functions of dispersal‐capable networks of communities (metacommunities) and what regulates a ...
Thomas P. Shannon, Evelyn E. Gaiser
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Warming modifies trophic impacts of invading shrimp with impact varying among primary producers

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Environmental change drivers, such as climate change and species invasions, can disrupt biological networks and weaken ecosystem stability. Acting together, these drivers may interact and alter the effects on the ecosystem. However, few studies have examined the interactive effects of climate change and species invasions, particularly in aquatic ...
Stefanie Coxe   +3 more
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Resource competition between buoyancy‐regulating and sinking phytoplankton species along a stratified water column

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In temperate lakes, plankton dynamics are closely linked to seasonal shifts in water stratification, following air temperature. The onset of summer stratification typically coincides with the formation of an algal spring bloom in the well‐mixed surface layer (epilimnion).
Arthur F. Rossignol, Sabine Wollrab
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Ecosystem engineers and functional dominance: when species loss matters for ecosystem function

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Understanding when and why species loss affects community function in natural communities remains an open question in ecology. Recent cross‐system analyses have shown that functional dominance is associated with whether species loss matters: in communities dominated by few high‐performing species, lost species contribute little to function.
Gianluca Sarà   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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