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A Classification Framework to Assess Ecological, Biogeochemical, and Hydrologic Synchrony and Asynchrony

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ECOSYSTEMS
卷 25, 期 5, 页码 989-1005

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00700-1

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Synchrony; Asynchrony; Ecosystems; Biogeochemistry; Hydrology; Environmental change; Classification

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This paper presents a unified definition of synchrony for ecosystem science and proposes a classification framework for synchrony and asynchrony of ecosystem processes based on five key aspects. By applying this framework to existing studies, the authors aim to facilitate the comparison among studies and across disciplines in understanding how different types of synchrony or asynchrony may shift in response to ongoing environmental change.
Ecosystems in the Anthropocene face pressures from multiple, interacting forms of environmental change. These pressures, resulting from land use change, altered hydrologic regimes, and climate change, will likely change the synchrony of ecosystem processes as distinct components of ecosystems are impacted in different ways. However, discipline-specific definitions and ad hoc methods for identifying synchrony and asynchrony have limited broader synthesis of this concept among studies and across disciplines. Drawing on concepts from ecology, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry, we offer a unifying definition of synchrony for ecosystem science and propose a classification framework for synchrony and asynchrony of ecosystem processes. This framework classifies the relationships among ecosystem processes according to five key aspects: (1) the focal variables or relationships representative of the ecosystem processes of interest, (2) the spatial and temporal domain of interest, (3) the structural attributes of drivers and focal processes, (4) consistency in the relationships over time, and (5) the degree of causality among focal processes. Using this classification framework, we identify and differentiate types of synchrony and asynchrony, thereby providing the basis for comparing among studies and across disciplines. We apply this classification framework to existing studies in the ecological, hydrologic, geomorphic, and biogeochemical literature and discuss potential analytical tools that can be used to quantify synchronous and asynchronous processes. Furthermore, we seek to promote understanding of how different types of synchrony or asynchrony may shift in response to ongoing environmental change by providing a universal definition and explicit types and drivers with this framework.

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