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Ecological plasticity governs ecosystem services in multilayer networks
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01547-3
Author(s)
Gray, Clare
Ma, Athen
McLaughlin, Orla
Petit, Sandrine
Woodward, Guy
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Agriculture is under pressure to achieve sustainable development goals for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Services in agro-ecosystems are typically driven by key species, and changes in the community composition and species abundance can have multifaceted effects. Assessment of individual services overlooks co-variance between different, but related, services coupled by a common group of species. This partial view ignores how effects propagate through an ecosystem. We conduct an analysis of 374 agricultural multilayer networks of two related services of weed seed regulation and gastropod mollusc predation delivered by carabid beetles. We found that weed seed regulation increased with the herbivore predation interaction frequency, computed from the network of trophic links between carabids and weed seeds in the herbivore layer. Weed seed regulation and herbivore interaction frequencies declined as the interaction frequencies between carabids and molluscs in the carnivore layer increased. This suggests that carabids can switch to gastropod predation with community change, and that link turnover rewires the herbivore and carnivore network layers affecting seed regulation. Our study reveals that ecosystem services are governed by ecological plasticity in structurally complex, multi-layer networks. Sustainable management therefore needs to go beyond the autecological approaches to ecosystem services that predominate, particularly in agriculture.
Date Issued
2021-01-18
Date Acceptance
2020-11-30
Citation
Communications Biology, 2021, 4 (1), pp.1-7
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/87229
URL
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01547-3
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01547-3
ISSN
2399-3642
Publisher
Nature Research
Start Page
1
End Page
7
Journal / Book Title
Communications Biology
Volume
4
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
Science & Technology - Other Topics
MODIFIED HERBICIDE-TOLERANT
FARM-SCALE EVALUATIONS
WEED SEED CONSUMPTION
FOOD-WEB
GENERALIST PREDATORS
PREY
MANAGEMENT
COMMUNITY
CROPS
ROBUSTNESS
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 75
Date Publish Online
2021-01-18
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