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| Title | Identifying 'climate keystone species' as a tool for conserving ecological communities under climate change |
| Abstract | Aim: Climate change affects ecological communities via impacts on species. The community's response to climate change can be represented as the temporal trend in a climate-related functional property that is quantified using a relevant functional trait. Noteworthy, some species influence this response in the community more strongly than others. Innovation: Leveraging on the concept of keystone species, we propose that species with a strong effect on the community's functional response to climate change beyond their relative abundance can be considered as 'climate keystone species'. We develop a stepwise tool to determine species' effects on a community's climate response and identify climate keystone species. We quantify the species-specific effect by measuring the difference in the community's climate response with and without the species. Next, we identify climate keystone species as those with a strong residual effect after weighting with their relative abundances in the community. Main Conclusions: To illustrate the use of the stepwise tool with empirical data, we identify climate keystone species that have a strong effect on the change in the average temperature niche in North American bird communities over time and find the identification tool ecologically relevant. Identification of climate keystone species can serve as an additional conservation method to efficiently protect ecological communities and, in turn, the ecosystem functions they provide. |
| Source | Diversity and distributions (Print) |
| Keywords | avian communitycommunity temperature indexconservation prioritizationecosystem functionfunctional traitglobal changekeystone species |
| Journal | Diversity and distributions (Print) |
| Editor | Blackwell Science., Oxford, Regno Unito |
| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1111/ddi.13764 |
| Authors | Marjakangas, Emma Liina; Santangeli, Andrea; Kujala, Heini; Mammola, Stefano; Lehikoinen, Aleksi |
| Text | 486272 2023 10.1111/ddi.13764 Scopus 2 s2.0 85168908691 avian community community temperature index conservation prioritization ecosystem function functional trait global change keystone species Identifying climate keystone species as a tool for conserving ecological communities under climate change Marjakangas, Emma Liina; Santangeli, Andrea; Kujala, Heini; Mammola, Stefano; Lehikoinen, Aleksi Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, Italy; Luonnontieteellinen Keskusmuseo; CSIC UIB Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA ; Helsingin Yliopisto Aim Climate change affects ecological communities via impacts on species. The community s response to climate change can be represented as the temporal trend in a climate related functional property that is quantified using a relevant functional trait. Noteworthy, some species influence this response in the community more strongly than others. Innovation Leveraging on the concept of keystone species, we propose that species with a strong effect on the community s functional response to climate change beyond their relative abundance can be considered as climate keystone species . We develop a stepwise tool to determine species effects on a community s climate response and identify climate keystone species. We quantify the species specific effect by measuring the difference in the community s climate response with and without the species. Next, we identify climate keystone species as those with a strong residual effect after weighting with their relative abundances in the community. Main Conclusions To illustrate the use of the stepwise tool with empirical data, we identify climate keystone species that have a strong effect on the change in the average temperature niche in North American bird communities over time and find the identification tool ecologically relevant. Identification of climate keystone species can serve as an additional conservation method to efficiently protect ecological communities and, in turn, the ecosystem functions they provide. Published version http //www.scopus.com/record/display.url eid=2 s2.0 85168908691 origin=inward Published version 2023_MARJAKANGAS ET AL DDI.pdf Articolo in rivista Blackwell Science. 1366 9516 Diversity and distributions Print Diversity and distributions Print Divers. distrib. Print Diversity and distributions Print stefano.mammola MAMMOLA STEFANO |