Journal
ECOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 72-82Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12873
Keywords
Biodiversity; climate change; ecosystem functioning; predator loss; tank-bromeliad
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- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) grant
- FAPESP [2014/04603-4]
- BPE-FAPESP [2016/01209-9]
- CNPq-Brazil research grants
- CNPq [550022/2014-7]
- FINEP [01.13.0353.00]
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Global change affects ecosystem functioning both directly by modifications in physicochemical processes, and indirectly, via changes in biotic metabolism and interactions. Unclear, however, is how multiple anthropogenic drivers affect different components of community structure and the performance of multiple ecosystem functions (ecosystem multifunctionality). We manipulated small natural freshwater ecosystems to investigate how warming and top predator loss affect seven ecosystem functions representing two major dimensions of ecosystem functioning, productivity and metabolism. We investigated their direct and indirect effects on community diversity and standing stock of multitrophic macro and microorganisms. Warming directly increased multifunctional ecosystem productivity and metabolism. In contrast, top predator loss indirectly affected multifunctional ecosystem productivity via changes in the diversity of detritivorous macroinvertebrates, but did not affect ecosystem metabolism. In addition to demonstrating how multiple anthropogenic drivers have different impacts, via different pathways, on ecosystem multifunctionality components, our work should further spur advances in predicting responses of ecosystems to multiple simultaneous environmental changes.
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