Department of Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2021 Oct;47:62-66. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2021.05.002. Epub 2021 May 24.
Climate change can indirectly affect ecosystem functions including detritus decomposition by modifying physiological traits, feeding behavior, and species interactions (including consumptive and non-consumptive top-down cascading effects) of decomposing arthropods. It is known that the effect of climate change on decomposition can be negative, neutral, or positive, and that it is highly context-dependent, depending on detritus quality, species identity, species interactions, and ecosystem type. Thus, ongoing climate change will undoubtedly influence the effects of arthropods on decomposition rates. More comprehensive studies are urgently needed to elucidate the effect of climate change on arthropod-detritus decomposers, particularly in the context of the decomposition of animal droppings and carrion.
气候变化可以通过改变分解节肢动物的生理特征、摄食行为和种间相互作用（包括消耗性和非消耗性自上而下的级联效应）间接影响生态系统功能，包括碎屑分解。已知气候变化对分解的影响可能是负面的、中性的或正面的，而且高度依赖于情境，取决于碎屑质量、物种身份、物种相互作用和生态系统类型。因此，正在发生的气候变化无疑将影响节肢动物对分解速率的影响。迫切需要更全面的研究来阐明气候变化对节肢动物-碎屑分解者的影响，特别是在动物粪便和腐肉分解的背景下。
