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Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems

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ECOLOGY
卷 103, 期 3, 页码 -

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3609

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coastal ecosystems; ecological networks; ecosystem functions; ecosystem services; food webs; salt marsh; species interaction

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  1. National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) [DBI-1639145]

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Biodiversity plays a crucial role in ecosystem services, but determining its specific contributions is challenging. Previous efforts have focused on identifying direct providers of services, but much less is known about how species indirectly influence ecosystem services through interactions with those direct providers. By compiling data sets and ecological networks, this study aims to advance knowledge of supporting species and develop new methods for ecosystem services. The data generated provides valuable information for understanding the importance of biodiversity in ecosystem services.
Biodiversity plays important roles in nature's contributions to people (i.e., ecosystem services), but the critical details of how biodiversity contributes are challenging to determine. Efforts to identify the components of an ecosystem that provide services have improved our understanding of which species, functional groups, population, or habitats directly provide services. However, species do not exist in isolation and considerably less is known about how species indirectly influence ecosystem services through interacting with those species directly providing services. This uncertainty is even greater when considering that species interact in complex networks. As such, detailed analyses of species interdependencies are rarely included in ecosystem services assessments or conservation decisions. To date, most studies on food webs and on ecosystem services have developed largely in parallel for many services, but these fields and data are ripe for empirical integration. To further this integration, we compiled data sets that linked three existing ecological networks to seven ecosystem functions and services: wave attenuation, shoreline stabilization, carbon sequestration, water filtration, fisheries, birdwatching, and waterfowl hunting. We leveraged high-resolution ecological interaction network data sets from three coastal salt marsh ecosystems including detailed species information (e.g., consumer strategy, body size, biomass) on several hundred species from Carpinteria Salt Marsh in California, USA, and for Estero de Punta Banda and Bahia Falsa in Baja, Mexico from Hechinger et al. (2011). Through an extensive literature synthesis and use of citizen science data, we identified which species in the Hechinger et al. (2011) data provided each ecosystem services directly. We augmented the Hechinger et al. (2011) data published in Ecology, particularly the link (or edge) list to include species-service links to indicate a species providing a service, in which species are listed as Resources and services are listed as Consumers. Connecting these data to the previously published ecological networks with species interactions (i.e., trophic, parasitism) formed a topological network with species and service nodes. We also provided a protocol for assigning services to ecological networks that can be used in other ecosystems. This data set provides a step toward advancing the knowledge of important supporting species for ecosystem services and to developing new ecological network methods for ecosystem services. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite this data paper when the data are used in publications.

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