期刊
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
卷 30, 期 4, 页码 182-189出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.01.006
关键词
ecosystem stability; functional extinction; functional diversity; population decline; global change; species interactions
资金
- A.V. Rama Rao Research Foundation
The essential functional roles performed by animal species are lost when they become locally extinct, and ecosystems are critically threatened by this decline in functional diversity. Theory that links function, diversity, and ecosystem stability exists but fails to assess function loss that occurs in species with persistent populations. The entire functional role of a species, or a critical component of it, can be lost following large population declines (functional extinction), following population increase, or after behavioural adaptations to changes in the population, community, habitat, or climate. Here, we provide a framework that identifies the scenarios under which 'cryptic' function loss can occur in persistent populations. Cryptic function loss is potentially widespread and critically threatens ecosystem stability across the globe.
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