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Moderate warming over the past 25 years has already reorganized stream invertebrate communities

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany 2019
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Climate warming often results in species range shifts, biodiversity loss and accumulated climatic debts of biota (i.e. slower changes in biota than in temperature). Here, we analyzed the changes in community composition and temperature signature of stream invertebrate communities over 25 years (1990-€“2014), based on a large set of samples (n = 3782) over large elevation, latitudinal and longitudinal gradients in central Europe. Although warming was moderate (average 0.5°C), we found a strong reorganization of stream invertebrate communities. Total abundance (+35.9%) and richness (+39.2%) significantly increased. The share of abundance (TA) and taxonomic richness (TR) of warm-dwelling taxa (TA: +73.2%; TR: +60.2%) and medium-temperature-dwelling taxa (TA: +0.4%; TR: +5.8%) increased too, while cold-dwelling taxa declined (TA: -61.5%; TR: -ˆ’47.3%). The community temperature index, representing the temperature signature of stream invertebrate communities, increased at a similar pace to physical temperature, indicating a thermophilization of the communities and, for the first time, no climatic debt. The strongest changes occurred along the altitudinal gradient, suggesting that stream invertebrates use the spatial configuration of river networks to track their temperature niche uphill. Yet, this may soon come to an end due to the summit trap effect. Our results indicate an ongoing process of replacement of cold-adapted species by thermophilic species at only 0.5 °C warming, which is particularly alarming in the light of the more drastic climate warming projected for coming decades.
    • الموضوع:
      Anthropocene; Aquatic communities; Climatic debt; Community composition; Community temperature index; Thermophilization; Ecology; Ekologi; Article in journal; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; text
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1016.j.scitotenv.2018.12.234
    • Availability:
      Open access content. Open access content
      info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
    • Note:
      English
    • Other Numbers:
      UPE oai:DiVA.org:umu-165416
      doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.234
      PMID 30678011
      ISI:000456175700142
      1234644895
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      UPPSALA UNIV LIBR
      From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsoai.on1234644895
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