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| Duplisea, Daniel; Blanchard, Fabian. |
| We examined the dynamics of fish species and how they relate to species assemblage coherence in the heavily exploited Georges Bank fish community. Coherence is defined as reduced temporal variability of total assemblage biomass. We assumed that a higher degree of compensation hence coherence occurs within competitively coupled species assemblages; therefore, fisheries may directly alter the dynamics of certain targeted species sizes but assemblage structure will be relatively more stable owing to compensatory interactions. Species-sizes were grouped, based on negative covariance coupling in biomass time series from survey data. Assemblages representing benthic feeders were clearly identified by this method; furthermore, the most heavily exploited... |
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Palavras-chave: Diversity stability; Species replacement; Energy flow; Emergent property; Thermodynamics; Goal function. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/publication-806.pdf |
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| Mclean, Matthew; Auber, Arnaud; Graham, Nicholas A J; Houk, Peter; Villéger, Sébastien; Violle, Cyrille; Thuiller, Wilfried; Wilson, Shaun K.; Mouillot, David. |
| ‘Functional’ diversity is believed to influence ecosystem dynamics through links between organismal traits and ecosystem processes. Theory predicts that key traits and high trait redundancy – large species richness and abundance supporting the same traits – can buffer communities against environmental disturbances. While experiments and data from simple ecological systems lend support, large‐scale evidence from diverse, natural systems under major disturbance is lacking. Here, using long‐term data from both temperate (English Channel) and tropical (Seychelles Islands) fishes, we show that sensitivity to disturbance depends on communities’ initial trait structure and initial trait redundancy. In both ecosystems, we found that increasing dominance by... |
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Palavras-chave: Climate change; Coral reefs; Diversity stability; Ecological traits; Ecosystem functioning; English Channel; Functional diversity. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00490/60184/63525.pdf |
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