Effects of habitat destruction on coevolving metacommunities.
antagonism
eco-evolutionary feedback
ecological networks
mutualism
spatially explicit models
Journal
Ecology letters
ISSN: 1461-0248
Titre abrégé: Ecol Lett
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101121949
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
revised:
27
07
2022
received:
10
02
2022
accepted:
06
09
2022
pubmed:
13
10
2022
medline:
26
11
2022
entrez:
12
10
2022
Statut:
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Résumé
Habitat destruction is a growing threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services. The ecological consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation involve reductions in species abundance and even the extinction of species and their interactions. However, we do not yet understand how habitat loss alters the coevolutionary trajectories of the remaining species or how coevolution, in turn, affects their response to habitat loss. To investigate this, we develop a spatially explicit model which couples metacommunity and coevolutionary dynamics. We show that, by changing the size, composition and structure of local networks, habitat destruction increases the diversity of coevolutionary trajectories of mutualists across the landscape. Conversely, in antagonistic communities, some species increase while others reduce their spatial trait heterogeneity. Furthermore, we show that while coevolution dampens the negative effects of habitat destruction in mutualistic networks, its effects on the persistence of antagonistic communities tend to be smaller and less predictable.
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Letter
Langues
eng
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2597-2610Subventions
Organisme : Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
ID : 310030_197201
Organisme : University of Zurich Research Priority Program Global Change and Biodiversity
Organisme : SNSF
Organisme : University of Zurich
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© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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