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dc.contributor.authorHaghkerdar, Jessica M.
dc.contributor.authorMcLachlan, Jack R.
dc.contributor.authorIreland, Alexis
dc.contributor.authorGreig, Hamish S.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-15T12:30:05Z
dc.date.available2019-02-15T12:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-14
dc.identifier257750063
dc.identifier77ad9d51-e285-4c05-b3c6-d632d0975cb8
dc.identifier85062676562
dc.identifier000460668800043
dc.identifier.citationHaghkerdar , J M , McLachlan , J R , Ireland , A & Greig , H S 2019 , ' Repeat disturbances have cumulative impacts on stream communities ' , Ecology and Evolution , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4968en
dc.identifier.issn2045-7758
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:48BC90A8FAB6D2A5DB5A5712F8E8AB30
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17076
dc.descriptionThis project was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch (or McIntire‐Stennis, Animal Health, etc.) project number #ME0‐21607 through the Maine Agricultural & Forest Experiment Station. Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Publication Number 3653.en
dc.description.abstract1. Climate change has altered disturbance regimes in many ecosystems, and predictions show that these trends are likely to continue. The frequency of disturbance events plays a particularly important role in communities by selecting for disturbance-tolerant taxa. 2. However, ecologists have yet to disentangle the influence of disturbance frequency per se and time since last disturbance, because more frequently disturbed systems have also usually been disturbed more recently. Our understanding of the effects of repeated disturbances is therefore confounded by differences in successional processes. 3. We used in-situ stream mesocosms to isolate and examine the effect of disturbance frequency on community composition. We applied substrate moving disturbances at five frequencies, with the last disturbance occurring on the same day across all treatments. Communities were then sampled after a recovery period of 9 days. 4. Macroinvertebrate community composition reflected the gradient of disturbance frequency driven by differential vulnerability of taxa to disturbance. Diversity metrics, including family-level richness, decreased, reflecting a likely loss of functional diversity with increasing disturbance frequency. In contrast, overall abundance was unaffected by disturbance frequency as rapid recovery of the dominant taxon compensated for strong negative responses of disturbance-vulnerable taxa. 5. We show that cumulative effects of repeated disturbances?not just the time communities have had to recover before sampling?alter communities, especially by disproportionately affecting rare taxa. Thus, the timing of past disturbances can have knock-on effects that determine how a system will respond to further change.
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dc.format.extent747673
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEcology and Evolutionen
dc.subjectCommunity compositionen
dc.subjectDiversityen
dc.subjectDominanceen
dc.subjectResilienceen
dc.subjectVulnerabilityen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleRepeat disturbances have cumulative impacts on stream communitiesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ece3.4968
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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