Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.
Glob Chang Biol. 2021 Jun;27(11):2273-2278. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15577. Epub 2021 Mar 16.
Human activity is affecting every ecosystem on Earth, with terrestrial biodiversity decreasing rapidly. Human influences materialize in the form of numerous, jointly acting factors, yet the experimental study of such joint impacts is not well developed. We identify the absence of a systematic ordering system of factors according to their properties (traits) as an impediment to progress and offer an a priori trait-based factor classification to illustrate this point, starting at the coarsest level with the physical, biological or chemical nature of factors. Such factor classifications can serve in communication of science, but also can be used as heuristic tools to develop questions and formulate new hypotheses, or as predictors of effects, which we explore here. We hope that classifications such as the one proposed here can help shift the spotlight on the multitude of anthropogenic changes affecting ecosystems, and that such classifications can be used to help unravel joint impacts of a great number of factors.
人类活动正在影响地球上的每一个生态系统，陆地生物多样性正在迅速减少。人类的影响以多种共同作用的因素的形式表现出来，但对这些共同影响的实验研究还不够发达。我们认为，缺乏根据因素的特性（特征）对其进行系统排序的系统是阻碍进展的一个因素，并提供了一种先验的基于特征的因素分类，以说明这一点，从最粗糙的层面开始，按照因素的物理、生物或化学性质进行分类。这种因素分类可以用于科学交流，也可以作为启发式工具来提出问题、形成新的假设，或者作为效应的预测因子，我们在这里对此进行了探讨。我们希望这里提出的分类能够帮助将焦点转移到影响生态系统的众多人为变化上，并且这种分类可以帮助我们揭示大量因素的共同影响。
