Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition |
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Author: | Boyero, Luz1,2; Perez, Javier3; Lopez-Rojo, Naiara3; |
Organizations: |
1Univ Basque Country UPV EHU, Dept Plant Biol & Ecol, Leioa, Spain. 2Ikerbasque, Bilbao, Spain. 3Univ Brasilia UnB, Limnol Aquariparia Lab, Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
4Univ Autonoma Chile, Inst Iberoamer Desarrollo Sostenible, Temuco, Chile.
5James Cook Univ, Ctr Trop Water & Aquat Ecosyst Res TropWATER, Townsville, Qld, Australia. 6James Cook Univ, Coll Marine & Environm Sci, Townsville, Qld, Australia. 7Oviedo Univ, Res Unit Biodivers, CSIC, UO,PA, Mieres, Spain. 8CSIC, Museo Nacl Ciencias Nat, Madrid, Spain. 9Univ Nacl Comahue, INIBIOMA, CONICET, San Carlos De Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina. 10Govt Arts Coll Melur, Dept Zool, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. 11Univ Tasmania, Sch Nat Sci, Hobart, Tas, Australia. 12Univ Western Australia, Sch Biol Sci, Crawley, WA, Australia. 13Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Dept Aquat Sci & Assessment, Uppsala, Sweden. 14Univ Fed Rio Grande do Norte, Dept Ecol, Natal, RN, Brazil. 15Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Labo Ecol Bentos, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. 16Rhithroecol Pty Ltd, Blackburn South, Vic, Australia. 17Penn State Univ, Dept Ecosyst Sci & Management, University Pk, PA 16802 USA. 18Univ Almeria, Dept Biol & Geol, Almeria, Spain. 19Ctr Invest Sistemas Sostenibles Prod Agr CIPAV, Cali, Colombia. 20Univ Illinois, Illinois River Biol Stn, Havana, IL USA. 21Univ Phys Educ, Fac Tourism & Leisure, Krakow, Poland. 22Univ Toulouse, Lab Ecol Fonct & Environm, CNRS, Toulouse, France. 23Georgia Southern Univ, Dept Biol, Statesboro, GA USA. 24Gorgas Mem Inst Hlth Studies COZEM ICGES, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Lab, Panama City, Panama. 25Leibniz Inst Freshwater Ecol & Inland Fisheries I, Dept Expt Limnol, Stechlin, Germany. 26Univ Catolica Temuco, Lab Limnol & Recursos Hidricos, Temuco, Chile. 27Univ San Francisco Quito, Inst BIOSFERA, Quito, Ecuador. 28Marine Inst, Newport, Ireland. 29Univ Concepcion, Fac Ciencias Ambientales, Concepcion, Chile. 30Cornell Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Ithaca, NY USA. 31Polish Acad Sci, Inst Nat Conservat, Krakow, Poland. 32Norwegian Inst Nat Res NINA, Tromso, Norway. 33Arctic Univ Norway UiT, Fac Biosci Fisheries & Econ, Tromso, Norway. 34Natl Inst Atlantic Forest, Programa Capacitacao Inst PCI INMA, Santa Teresa, Espirito Santo, Brazil. 35Charles Darwin Univ, Res Inst Environm & Livelihoods, Casuarina, NT, Australia. 36Autonomous Univ Chiriqui, Water Lab & Physicochem Serv LASEF, David City, Panama. 37Univ San Carlos, Escuela Biol, Guatemala City, Guatemala. 38Univ Montana, Organismal Biol Ecol & Evolut OBEE Program, Missoula, MO USA. 39TU Berlin, Dept Ecol, Berlin Inst Technol, Berlin, Germany. 40Univ Coll Cork, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, Cork, Ireland. 41Univ Puerto Rico, Dept Ciencias Ambientales, San Juan, PR 00936 USA. 42Univ Coimbra, Dept Life Sci, Coimbra, Portugal. 43Univ Coimbra, Marine & Environm Sci Ctr MARE, Coimbra, Portugal. 44Univ Montana, Flathead Lake Biol Stn, Missoula, MT 59812 USA. 45Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia INPA, Coordena Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. 46Univ Fed Mato Grosso do Sul, Campus Tres Lagoas, Tres Lagoas, MS, Brazil. 47Stellenbosch Univ, Dept Math Sci, Matieland, South Africa. 48African Inst Math Sci, Biodivers Informat Unit, Cape Town, South Africa. 49Univ Yamanashi, Integrated Grad Sch Med Engn & Agr Sci, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. 50Univ Yamanashi, Fac Life & Environm Sci, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. 51Univ Fed Bahia, Inst Biol, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 52Egerton Univ, Egerton, Kenya. 53Univ San Francisco Quito, Inst BIOSFERA USFQ, Quito, Ecuador. 54Univ Zulia, Lab Contaminac Acuat & Ecol Fluvial, Zulia, Venezuela. 55Univ Oulu, Dept Ecol & Genet, Oulu, Finland. 56Museums Victoria, Dept Entomol, Melbourne, Vic, Australia. 57Univ Eldoret, Dept Fisheries & Aquat Sci, Eldoret, Kenya. 58Oakland Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Rochester, MI USA. 59Hokkaido Univ, Fac Environm Earth Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. 60North Carolina State Univ, Dept Appl Ecol, Raleigh, NC USA. 61Communitarian Univ Chapeco Reg, Program Postgrad Environm Sci, Chapeco, SC, Brazil. 62Univ British Columbia, Dept Forest & Conservat Sci, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 63Griffith Univ, Australian Rivers Inst, Nathan, Qld, Australia. 64Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Geog & Environm Syst, Baltimore, MD 21228 USA. 65Univ Julius NYerere Kankan, Kankan, Guinea. 66Hokkaido Univ, Grad Sch Environm Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. 67Univ Sunshine Coast, Sch Sci & Engn, Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia. |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.8 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021051930605 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-05-19 |
Description: |
AbstractRunning waters contribute substantially to global carbon fluxes through decomposition of terrestrial plant litter by aquatic microorganisms and detritivores. Diversity of this litter may influence instream decomposition globally in ways that are not yet understood. We investigated latitudinal differences in decomposition of litter mixtures of low and high functional diversity in 40 streams on 6 continents and spanning 113° of latitude. Despite important variability in our dataset, we found latitudinal differences in the effect of litter functional diversity on decomposition, which we explained as evolutionary adaptations of litter-consuming detritivores to resource availability. Specifically, a balanced diet effect appears to operate at lower latitudes versus a resource concentration effect at higher latitudes. The latitudinal pattern indicates that loss of plant functional diversity will have different consequences on carbon fluxes across the globe, with greater repercussions likely at low latitudes. see all
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Series: |
Science advances |
ISSN: | 2375-2548 |
ISSN-E: | 2375-2548 |
ISSN-L: | 2375-2548 |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 13 |
Article number: | eabe7860 |
DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.abe7860 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe7860 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology 1172 Environmental sciences |
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Funding: |
This study was part of the DecoDiv project conducted by the GLoBE network (www.globenetwork.es), which is coordinated by L.B.Most research was based on crowdfunding (details on specific funding sources at each region are given in the Supplementary Materials). Project coordination was funded by Basque Government funds (ref. IT951-16) to the Stream Ecology Group (UPV/EHU, Spain). Litter trait analyses were funded by the 2014–2020 Operational Programme FEDER Andalusia, Spain (ref. UAL18-RNM-B006-B to J.J.C.) and the Portuguese Science Foundation, Portugal (ref. UIDB/04292/2020 to MARE). |
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