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Resilient consumers accelerate the plant decomposition in a naturally acidified seagrass ecosystem
- Source :
- Global Change Biology. 28:4558-4576
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2022.
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Abstract
- Anthropogenic stressors are predicted to alter biodiversity and ecosystem functioning worldwide. However, scaling up from species to ecosystem responses poses a challenge, as species and functional groups can exhibit different capacities to adapt, acclimate, and compensate under changing environments. We used a naturally acidified seagrass ecosystem (the endemic Mediterranean Posidonia oceanica) as a model system to examine how ocean acidification (OA) modifies the community structure and functioning of plant detritivores, which play vital roles in the coastal nutrient cycling and food web dynamics. In seagrass beds associated with volcanic CO
Details
- ISSN :
- 13652486 and 13541013
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Global Change Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....29373d3ae57c74c0892688e72bbf32a8