Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46637, USA.
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2013 May;88(2):327-48. doi: 10.1111/brv.12002. Epub 2012 Dec 6.
The sustainability of ecosystem services depends on a firm understanding of both how organisms provide these services to humans and how these organisms will be altered with a changing climate. Unquestionably a dominant feature of most ecosystems, invertebrates affect many ecosystem services and are also highly responsive to climate change. However, there is still a basic lack of understanding of the direct and indirect paths by which invertebrates influence ecosystem services, as well as how climate change will affect those ecosystem services by altering invertebrate populations. This indicates a lack of communication and collaboration among scientists researching ecosystem services and climate change effects on invertebrates, and land managers and researchers from other disciplines, which becomes obvious when systematically reviewing the literature relevant to invertebrates, ecosystem services, and climate change. To address this issue, we review how invertebrates respond to climate change. We then review how invertebrates both positively and negatively influence ecosystem services. Lastly, we provide some critical future directions for research needs, and suggest ways in which managers, scientists and other researchers may collaborate to tackle the complex issue of sustaining invertebrate-mediated services under a changing climate.
生态系统服务的可持续性取决于对生物向人类提供这些服务的方式以及随着气候变化这些生物将如何发生变化的深刻理解。无庸置疑，无脊椎动物是大多数生态系统的主要特征，它们影响着许多生态系统服务，并且对气候变化也非常敏感。然而，对于无脊椎动物影响生态系统服务的直接和间接途径，以及气候变化如何通过改变无脊椎动物种群来影响这些生态系统服务，我们仍然缺乏基本的了解。这表明研究生态系统服务和气候变化对无脊椎动物影响的科学家之间、以及来自其他学科的土地管理者和研究人员之间缺乏沟通和协作，而当我们系统地审查与无脊椎动物、生态系统服务和气候变化相关的文献时，这一点就变得很明显。为了解决这个问题，我们回顾了无脊椎动物对气候变化的反应。然后，我们回顾了无脊椎动物如何积极和消极地影响生态系统服务。最后，我们为未来的研究需求提供了一些关键的方向，并提出了管理者、科学家和其他研究人员在应对气候变化下维持无脊椎动物介导的服务这一复杂问题时可以合作的方式。
