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| Climate change, keystone predation, and biodiversity loss |  |
| Harley, C.D.G. (2011). Climate change, keystone predation, and biodiversity loss Science (Wash.) 334(6059): 1124-1127 |
| In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: Washington DC. ISSN 0036-8075, meer |
| Abstract |
Climate change can affect organisms both directly via physiological stress and indirectly via changing relationships among species. However, we do not fully understand how changing interspecific relationships contribute to community- and ecosystem-level responses to environmental forcing. I used experiments and that warming substantially reduces predator-free space on rocky shores. The vertical extent of mussel beds at several sites. Prey species were able to occupy a hot, extralimital site if predation pressure was experimentally reduced, and local species richness more than doubled as a result. These results suggest that anthropogenic climate change can alter interspecific interactions and produce unexpected changes in species distributions, community structure, and diversity. |
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