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Berlino M, Mangano MC, Di Bona G, Lucchese M, Terzo SMC, De Vittor C, D'Alessandro M, Esposito V, Gambi MC, Del Negro P, Sarà G. Functional diversity and metabolic response in benthic communities along an ocean acidification gradient. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 198:106520. [PMID: 38685145 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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Altered ocean chemistry caused by ocean acidification (OA) is expected to have negative repercussions at different levels of the ecological hierarchy, starting from the individual and scaling up to the community and ultimately to the ecosystem level. Understanding the effects of OA on benthic organisms is of primary importance given their relevant ecological role in maintaining marine ecosystem functioning. The use of functional traits represents an effective technique to investigate how species adapt to altered environmental conditions and can be used to predict changes in the resilience of communities faced with stresses associated with climate change. Artificial supports were deployed for 1-y along a natural pH gradient in the shallow hydrothermal systems of the Bottaro crater near Panarea (Aeolian Archipelago, southern Tyrrhenian Sea), to explore changes in functional traits and metabolic rates of benthic communities and the repercussions in terms of functional diversity. Changes in community composition due to OA were accompanied by modifications in functional diversity. Altered conditions led to higher oxygen consumption in the acidified site and the selection of species with the functional traits needed to withstand OA. Calcification rate and reproduction were found to be the traits most affected by pH variations. A reduction in a community's functional evenness could potentially reduce its resilience to further environmental or anthropogenic stressors. These findings highlight the ability of the ecosystem to respond to climate change and provide insights into the modifications that can be expected given the predicted future pCO2 scenarios. Understanding the impact of climate change on functional diversity and thus on community functioning and stability is crucial if we are to predict changes in ecosystem vulnerability, especially in a context where OA occurs in combination with other environmental changes and anthropogenic stressors.
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- M Berlino
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Sicily Marine Centre, Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo (complesso Roosevelt), 90149, Palermo, Italy; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, DiSTeM, Università degli Studi di Palermo Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy.
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- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Sicily Marine Centre, Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo (complesso Roosevelt), 90149, Palermo, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, DiSTeM, Università degli Studi di Palermo Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, DiSTeM, Università degli Studi di Palermo Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy; National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, DiSTeM, Università degli Studi di Palermo Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy; Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Viale Fernando Stagno d'Alcontres 3, University of Messina, Messina, Italy; Department of Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Via A.F. Acton, Molosiglio, Napoli, 80133, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Research Infrastructures for Marine Biological Resources Department, Via Po 25, 00198, Roma, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy; Previous at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Department of Marine Integrative Ecology (EMI), Ischia Marine Center, Ischia Napoli, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, DiSTeM, Università degli Studi di Palermo Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16, 90128, Palermo, Italy
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Robinson JPW, Benkwitt CE, Maire E, Morais R, Schiettekatte NMD, Skinner C, Brandl SJ. Quantifying energy and nutrient fluxes in coral reef food webs. Trends Ecol Evol 2024; 39:467-478. [PMID: 38105132 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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The movement of energy and nutrients through ecological communities represents the biological 'pulse' underpinning ecosystem functioning and services. However, energy and nutrient fluxes are inherently difficult to observe, particularly in high-diversity systems such as coral reefs. We review advances in the quantification of fluxes in coral reef fishes, focusing on four key frameworks: demographic modelling, bioenergetics, micronutrients, and compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA). Each framework can be integrated with underwater surveys, enabling researchers to scale organismal processes to ecosystem properties. This has revealed how small fish support biomass turnover, pelagic subsidies sustain fisheries, and fisheries benefit human health. Combining frameworks, closing data gaps, and expansion to other aquatic ecosystems can advance understanding of how fishes contribute to ecosystem functions and services.
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- James P W Robinson
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK.
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
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- Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, École Pratique des Hautes Études, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Perpignan 66860, France
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- School of the Environment, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX 78373, USA
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Shokri M, Marrocco V, Cozzoli F, Vignes F, Basset A. The relative importance of metabolic rate and body size to space use behavior in aquatic invertebrates. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e11253. [PMID: 38770126 PMCID: PMC11103644 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024] Open
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Elucidating the underlying mechanisms behind variations of animal space and resource use is crucial to pinpoint relevant ecological phenomena. Organism's traits related to its energy requirements might be central in explaining behavioral variation, as the ultimate goal of a forager is to fulfill its energy requirements. However, it has remained poorly understood how energy requirements and behavioral patterns are functionally connected. Here we aimed to assess how body mass and standard metabolic rate (SMR) influence behavioral patterns in terms of cumulative space use and time spent in an experimental patchy environment, both within species and among individuals irrespective of species identity. We measured the behavioral patterns and SMR of two invertebrate species, that is, amphipod Gammarus insensibilis, and isopod Lekanesphaera monodi, individually across a range of body masses. We found that species of G. insensibilis have higher SMR level, in addition to cumulatively exploring a larger space than L. monodi. Cumulative space use scaled allometrically with body mass, and it scaled isometrically with SMR in both species. While time spent similarly in both species was characterized by negative body mass and SMR dependence, it was observed that L. monodi individuals tended to stay longer in resource patches compared to G. insensibilis individuals. Our results further showed that within species, body mass and metabolic rate explained a similar amount of variation in behavior modes. However, among individuals, regardless of species identity, SMR had stronger predictive power for behavioral modes compared to body mass. This suggests that SMR might offer a more generalized and holistic description of behavioral patterns that extend beyond species identity. Our study on the metabolic and body mass scaling of space and resource use behavior sheds light on higher-order ecological processes such as species' competitive coexistence along the spatial and trophic dimensions.
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- Milad Shokri
- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and TechnologiesUniversity of SalentoLecceItaly
- National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)PalermoItaly
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- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and TechnologiesUniversity of SalentoLecceItaly
- LifeWatch ERIC, Service Centre, Campus EcotekneLecceItaly
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- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and TechnologiesUniversity of SalentoLecceItaly
- National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)PalermoItaly
- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) – National Research Council of Italy (CNR) via SalariaMonterotondo Scalo (Rome)Italy
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- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and TechnologiesUniversity of SalentoLecceItaly
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- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and TechnologiesUniversity of SalentoLecceItaly
- National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)PalermoItaly
- LifeWatch ERIC, Service Centre, Campus EcotekneLecceItaly
- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) – National Research Council of Italy (CNR) via SalariaMonterotondo Scalo (Rome)Italy
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Lilkendey J, Barrelet C, Zhang J, Meares M, Larbi H, Subsol G, Chaumont M, Sabetian A. Herbivorous fish feeding dynamics and energy expenditure on a coral reef: Insights from stereo-video and AI-driven 3D tracking. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e11070. [PMID: 38435013 PMCID: PMC10909578 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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Unveiling the intricate relationships between animal movement ecology, feeding behavior, and internal energy budgeting is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of ecosystem functioning, especially on coral reefs under significant anthropogenic stress. Here, herbivorous fishes play a vital role as mediators between algae growth and coral recruitment. Our research examines the feeding preferences, bite rates, inter-bite distances, and foraging energy expenditure of the Brown surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigrofuscus) and the Yellowtail tang (Zebrasoma xanthurum) within the fish community on a Red Sea coral reef. To this end, we used advanced methods such as remote underwater stereo-video, AI-driven object recognition, species classification, and 3D tracking. Despite their comparatively low biomass, the two surgeonfish species significantly influence grazing pressure on the studied coral reef. A. nigrofuscus exhibits specialized feeding preferences and Z. xanthurum a more generalist approach, highlighting niche differentiation and their importance in maintaining reef ecosystem balance. Despite these differences in their foraging strategies, on a population level, both species achieve a similar level of energy efficiency. This study highlights the transformative potential of cutting-edge technologies in revealing the functional feeding traits and energy utilization of keystone species. It facilitates the detailed mapping of energy seascapes, guiding targeted conservation efforts to enhance ecosystem health and biodiversity.
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- Julian Lilkendey
- School of ScienceAuckland University of Technology (AUT)AucklandNew Zealand
- Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)BremenGermany
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- Research‐Team ICAR, Laboratoire d'informatique, de robotique et de microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), CNRSUniversity of MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- School of ScienceAuckland University of Technology (AUT)AucklandNew Zealand
- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research LimitedAucklandNew Zealand
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- School of ScienceAuckland University of Technology (AUT)AucklandNew Zealand
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- Research‐Team ICAR, Laboratoire d'informatique, de robotique et de microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), CNRSUniversity of MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- Research‐Team ICAR, Laboratoire d'informatique, de robotique et de microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), CNRSUniversity of MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- Research‐Team ICAR, Laboratoire d'informatique, de robotique et de microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), CNRSUniversity of MontpellierMontpellierFrance
- University of NîmesNîmesFrance
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- School of ScienceAuckland University of Technology (AUT)AucklandNew Zealand
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Glazier DS, Gjoni V. Interactive effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on metabolic rate. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2024; 379:20220489. [PMID: 38186280 PMCID: PMC10772614 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
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Metabolism energizes all biological processes, and its tempo may importantly influence the ecological success and evolutionary fitness of organisms. Therefore, understanding the broad variation in metabolic rate that exists across the living world is a fundamental challenge in biology. To further the development of a more reliable and holistic picture of the causes of this variation, we review several examples of how various intrinsic (biological) and extrinsic (environmental) factors (including body size, cell size, activity level, temperature, predation and other diverse genetic, cellular, morphological, physiological, behavioural and ecological influences) can interactively affect metabolic rate in synergistic or antagonistic ways. Most of the interactive effects that have been documented involve body size, temperature or both, but future research may reveal additional 'hub factors'. Our review highlights the complex, intimate inter-relationships between physiology and ecology, knowledge of which can shed light on various problems in both disciplines, including variation in physiological adaptations, life histories, ecological niches and various organism-environment interactions in ecosystems. We also discuss theoretical and practical implications of interactive effects on metabolic rate and provide suggestions for future research, including holistic system analyses at various hierarchical levels of organization that focus on interactive proximate (functional) and ultimate (evolutionary) causal networks. This article is part of the theme issue 'The evolutionary significance of variation in metabolic rates'.
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- Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57609, USA
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Weisberg SJ, Pershing AJ, Grigoratou M, Mills KE, Fenwick IF, Frisk MG, McBride R, Lucey SM, Kemberling A, Beltz B, Nye JA. Merging trait-based ecology and regime shift theory to anticipate community responses to warming. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2024; 30:e17065. [PMID: 38273564 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Anthropogenic warming is altering species abundance, distribution, physiology, and more. How changes observed at the species level alter emergent community properties is an active and urgent area of research. Trait-based ecology and regime shift theory provide complementary ways to understand climate change impacts on communities, but these two bodies of work are only rarely integrated. Lack of integration handicaps our ability to understand community responses to warming, at a time when such understanding is critical. Therefore, we advocate for merging trait-based ecology with regime shift theory. We propose a general set of principles to guide this merger and apply these principles to research on marine communities in the rapidly warming North Atlantic. In our example, combining trait distribution and regime shift analyses at the community level yields greater insight than either alone. Looking forward, we identify a clear need for expanding quantitative approaches to collecting and merging trait-based and resilience metrics in order to advance our understanding of climate-driven community change.
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- Sarah J Weisberg
- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, France
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, Maine, USA
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- Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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Luan L, Dini-Andreote F, Sun B, Jiang Y. Modeling soil bacterial diversity: challenges and opportunities. Trends Microbiol 2023; 31:885-888. [PMID: 37301687 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Understanding the mechanisms structuring soil bacterial diversity has critical implications to advance the parametrization of species distribution models. This forum article discusses recent advances in the use of the metabolic theory of ecology applicable to soil microbiology, and highlights challenges and opportunities to inform future empirical and theoretical studies.
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- Lu Luan
- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Ecological Experimental Station of Red Soil, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yingtan 335211, China
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- Department of Plant Science & Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Ecological Experimental Station of Red Soil, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yingtan 335211, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Ecological Experimental Station of Red Soil, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yingtan 335211, China.
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Streit RP, Bellwood DR. To harness traits for ecology, let’s abandon ‘functionality’. Trends Ecol Evol 2022; 38:402-411. [PMID: 36522192 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Traits are measurable features of organisms. Functional traits aspire to more. They quantify an organism's ecology and, ultimately, predict ecosystem functions based on local communities. Such predictions are useful, but only if 'functional' really means 'ecologically relevant'. Unfortunately, many 'functional' traits seem to be characterized primarily by availability and implied importance - not by their ecological information content. Better traits are needed, but a prevailing trend is to 'functionalize' existing traits. The key may be to invert the process, that is, to identify functions of interest first and then identify traits as quantifiable proxies. We propose two distinct, yet complementary, perspectives on traits and provide a 'taxonomy of traits', a conceptual compass to navigate the diverse applications of traits in ecology.
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Shokri M, Cozzoli F, Vignes F, Bertoli M, Pizzul E, Basset A. Metabolic rate and climate change across latitudes: evidence of mass-dependent responses in aquatic amphipods. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:280993. [PMID: 36337048 PMCID: PMC9720750 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Predictions of individual responses to climate change are often based on the assumption that temperature affects the metabolism of individuals independently of their body mass. However, empirical evidence indicates that interactive effects exist. Here, we investigated the response of individual standard metabolic rate (SMR) to annual temperature range and forecasted temperature rises of 0.6-1.2°C above the current maxima, under the conservative climate change scenario IPCC RCP2.6. As a model organism, we used the amphipod Gammarus insensibilis, collected across latitudes along the western coast of the Adriatic Sea down to the southernmost limit of the species' distributional range, with individuals varying in body mass (0.4-13.57 mg). Overall, we found that the effect of temperature on SMR is mass dependent. Within the annual temperature range, the mass-specific SMR of small/young individuals increased with temperature at a greater rate (activation energy: E=0.48 eV) than large/old individuals (E=0.29 eV), with a higher metabolic level for high-latitude than low-latitude populations. However, under the forecasted climate conditions, the mass-specific SMR of large individuals responded differently across latitudes. Unlike the higher-latitude population, whose mass-specific SMR increased in response to the forecasted climate change across all size classes, in the lower-latitude populations, this increase was not seen in large individuals. The larger/older conspecifics at lower latitudes could therefore be the first to experience the negative impacts of warming on metabolism-related processes. Although the ecological collapse of such a basic trophic level (aquatic amphipods) owing to climate change would have profound consequences for population ecology, the risk is significantly mitigated by phenotypic and genotypic adaptation.
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- Milad Shokri
- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, S.P. Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy,Authors for correspondence (; )
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- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, S.P. Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy,Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET–URT Lecce), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Campus Ecotekne, S.P. Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy,Authors for correspondence (; )
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- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, S.P. Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Via Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Via Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, S.P. Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy,National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo 90133, Italy
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