升温以及顶级捕食者的减少会在生态系统内部和之间对多个营养级群体产生直接和间接的影响。
Warming and top predator loss drive direct and indirect effects on multiple trophic groups within and across ecosystems.
机构信息
Laboratório de Interações Multitróficas e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biologia (IB), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
出版信息
J Anim Ecol. 2022 Feb;91(2):428-442. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13640. Epub 2021 Dec 1.
The interspecific interactions within and between adjacent ecosystems strongly depend on the changes in their abiotic and biotic components. However, little is known about how climate change and biodiversity loss in a specific ecosystem can impact the multiple trophic interactions of different biological groups within and across ecosystems. We used natural microecosystems (tank-bromeliads) as a model system to investigate the main and interactive effects of aquatic warming and aquatic top predator loss (i.e. trophic downgrading) on trophic relationships in three integrated food web compartments: (a) aquatic micro-organisms, (b) aquatic macro-organisms and (c) terrestrial predators (i.e. via cross-ecosystem effects). The aquatic top predator loss substantially impacted the three food web compartments. In the aquatic macrofauna compartment, trophic downgrading increased the filter feeder richness and abundance directly and indirectly via an increase in detritivore richness, likely through a facilitative interaction. For the microbiota compartment, aquatic top predator loss had a negative effect on algae richness, probably via decreasing the input of nutrients from predator biological activities. Furthermore, the more active terrestrial predators responded more to aquatic top predator loss, via an increase in some components of aquatic macrofauna, than more stationary terrestrial predators. The aquatic trophic downgrading indirectly altered the richness and abundance of cursorial terrestrial predators, but these effects had different direction according to the aquatic functional group, filter feeder or other detritivores. The web-building predators were indirectly affected by aquatic trophic downgrading due to increased filter feeder richness. Aquatic warming did not affect the aquatic micro- or macro-organisms but did positively affect the abundance of web-building terrestrial predators. These results allow us to raise a predictive framework of how different anthropogenic changes predicted for the next decades, such as aquatic warming and top predator loss, could differentially affect multiple biological groups through interactions within and across ecosystems.
种间相互作用在相邻生态系统内部和之间强烈依赖于其非生物和生物成分的变化。然而,对于特定生态系统中的气候变化和生物多样性丧失如何影响不同生物群体在生态系统内部和之间的多种营养相互作用,人们知之甚少。我们使用自然微型生态系统(水箱凤梨科植物)作为模型系统,研究了水生升温和水生顶级捕食者损失(即营养降级)对三个综合食物网隔室中营养关系的主要和交互影响:(a) 水生微生物,(b) 水生大型生物和 (c) 陆地捕食者(即通过跨生态系统效应)。水生顶级捕食者的损失对三个食物网隔室都有重大影响。在水生大型动物群落中,营养降级通过增加碎屑食者的丰富度和丰度,直接和间接增加滤食者的丰富度和丰度,这可能是通过促进相互作用实现的。对于微生物群落,水生顶级捕食者的损失对藻类的丰富度有负面影响,这可能是通过减少捕食者生物活动产生的营养物质输入。此外,更活跃的陆地捕食者对水生顶级捕食者的损失反应更强烈,通过增加一些水生大型动物的成分,而不是更静止的陆地捕食者。水生营养降级间接改变了快速移动的陆地捕食者的丰富度和丰度,但这些影响根据水生功能群、滤食者或其他碎屑食者而有不同的方向。结网捕食者由于滤食者丰富度的增加而间接受水生营养降级的影响。水生升温不会影响水生微生物或大型生物,但会正面影响结网陆地捕食者的丰度。这些结果使我们能够提出一个预测框架,说明未来几十年预计会发生的不同人为变化(如水生升温和顶级捕食者的丧失)如何通过生态系统内部和之间的相互作用,不同地影响多个生物群体。