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Repeat Disturbances Have Cumulative Impacts On Stream Communities, Jessica M. Haghkerdar, Jack R. Mclachlan, Alexis Ireland, Hamish S. Greig
Repeat Disturbances Have Cumulative Impacts On Stream Communities, Jessica M. Haghkerdar, Jack R. Mclachlan, Alexis Ireland, Hamish S. Greig
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1. Climate change has altered disturbance regimes in many ecosystems, and predictions show that these trends are likely to continue. The frequency of disturbance events plays a particularly important role in communities by selecting for disturbance -tolerant taxa.
2. However, ecologists have yet to disentangle the influence of disturbance frequency per se and time since last disturbance, because more frequently disturbed systems have also usually been disturbed more recently. Our understanding of the effects of repeated disturbances is therefore confounded by differences in successional processes.
3. We used in -situ stream mesocosms to isolate and examine the effect of disturbance …
Reversal Of Competitive Dominance Between Invasive And Native Freshwater Crayfish Species Under Near-Future Elevated Water Temperature, Stephanie Cerato, Andrew R. Davis, Daniel Coleman, Marian Y. L Wong
Reversal Of Competitive Dominance Between Invasive And Native Freshwater Crayfish Species Under Near-Future Elevated Water Temperature, Stephanie Cerato, Andrew R. Davis, Daniel Coleman, Marian Y. L Wong
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
Biological invasions are a major cause of biodiversity loss and, coupled with climate change, will likely have detrimental impacts for native species and the functioning of ecosystems. To mitigate such impacts, it is important to elucidate the behavioural mechanisms underpinning interactions between invasive and native species. Here we examined how competitive interactions between invasive and native species are modified under conditions of near-future elevated water temperature using freshwater crayfish as a model system. Contest experiments between the native Euastacus spinifer and invasive Cherax destructor revealed that the competitive advantage of E. spinifer at current maximum temperatures (22 °C) was reversed …