Harnessing positive species interactions as a tool against climate-driven loss of coastal biodiversity

Bulleri, Fabio; Eriksson, Britas Klemens; Queirós, Ana de Moura; Airoldi, Laura; Arenas, Francisco; Arvanitidis, Christos; Bouma, Tjeerd J.; Crowe, Tasman P.; Davoult, Dominique; Guizien, Katell; Iveša, Ljiljana; Jenkins, Stuart R.; Michalet, Richard; Olabarria, Celia; Procaccini, Gabriele; Serrão, Ester A.; Wahl, Martin; Benedetti‐Cecchi, Lisandro

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2006852

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“…Successful restoration should also ensure that restored ecosystems are resilient to environmental factors, especially to climate change. The importance of temperature in driving plant–bivalve interactions suggests that incorporating facilitative positive interactions in subtidal habitat restoration may become more important as global temperatures rise (Bulleri et al, 2018). Correspondingly, it will likely become more critical to consider and avoid negative interactions when restoring intertidal habitats in warmer climates.…”

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Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant–bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success

Gagnon

Rinde

Bengil³

et al. 2020

Journal of Applied Ecology

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Vegetated marine and freshwater habitats are being increasingly lost around the world. Habitat restoration is a critical step for conserving these valuable habitats, but new approaches are needed to increase restoration success and ensure their survival. We investigated interactions between plants and bivalves through a review and analysis of 491 studies, determined the effects, mechanisms and key environmental variables involved in and driving positive and negative interactions, and produced guidelines for integrating positive interactions into restoration efforts in different habitats. Fifty per cent of all interactions (both correlative and experimental studies) were positive. These were predominant between epifaunal bivalves and plants in all habitats, and between infaunal bivalves and plants in subtidal habitats. Plants primarily promoted bivalve survival and abundance by providing substrate and shelter, while bivalves promoted plant growth and survival by stabilizing and fertilizing the sediment, and reducing water turbidity. The prevalence of positive interactions increased with water temperature in subtidal habitats, but decreased with water temperature in intertidal habitats. The subset of studies conducted in a restoration context also showed mostly positive interactions. Twenty‐five per cent of all interactions were negative, and these were predominant between plants and infaunal bivalves in intertidal habitats, except sulphide‐metabolizing bivalves, which facilitated plant survival. Interactions involving non‐native species were also mostly negative. Synthesis and applications. Promoting facilitative interactions through plant–bivalve co‐restoration can increase restoration success. The prevalence of positive interactions depends on habitat and environmental conditions such as temperature, and was especially important in subtidal habitats (involving both infaunal and epifaunal bivalves) and in intertidal habitats (involving only epifaunal bivalves). Thus sites and species for co‐restoration must be carefully chosen to maximize the chances of success. If done properly, co‐restoration could increase initial survival, persistence and resilience of foundation species, and promote the recovery of associated biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant–bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success

Gagnon

Rinde

Bengil³

et al. 2020

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…Wilson 1992;McCann 2000) and also empirical findings that species interactions can influence adaptation in other species that experience environmental disturbance (e.g. Lawrence et al 2012;Bulleri et al 2018), and consider the additional perspective that dispersal facilitates novel species interactions that alter coexistence, diversity, and evolutionary trajectories. The number of species adapting to the environment was also determined by the strength of competition, determined here by the term σ α .…”

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Eco-evolutionary feedbacks and the maintenance of metacommunity diversity in a changing environment

Fielding

Pantel

2020

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The presence and strength of resource competition can influence how organisms 14 adaptively respond to environmental change. Selection may thus reflect a balance between two 15 forces, adaptation to an environmental optimum and evolution to avoid strong competition. While 16 this has been explored in single communities, its implications for eco-evolutionary dynamics at 17 the metacommunity scale are unknown. We developed a simulation model of quantitative trait 18 evolution for a trait that influences an organism's carrying capacity and its intra-and interspecific 19 competition strength. Multiple species inhabited a variable three-patch landscape, and we varied 20the connectivity level of the species among patches, the presence and pace of directional 21 environmental change, and the strength of competition between the species. Our results reflected 22 some patterns previously observed in evolving metacommunity models (e.g. species sorting and 23 community monopolization), although species sorting was more common when competition 24 strength was high and monopolization was observed only when the environmental change was 25 very rapid. We also detected an eco-evolutionary feedback loop between local phenotypic 26 evolution at one site and competition at another site that maintains species diversity in some 27conditions. The existence of a feedback loop that is maintained by dispersal indicates that eco -28 evolutionary dynamics in communities operate at a landscape scale. 29 30(1) ( ) = * −( − )2 2 2 151 152 Here xopt is the trait value corresponding to the maximum carrying capacity, Kmax, and Kmax is the 153 same for all populations in the patch. Carrying capacity decreases if population traits are distant 154

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“…The amplification or buffering of environmental impacts by biotic interactions should be particularly pronounced where foundational, that is, habitat‐forming, species are involved (Doney et al ). Habitat forming macroalgae, for instance, at small spatial scales may act as community “rescuers” (Bulleri et al ) by counteracting the effects of global change factors such as warming (e.g., Silliman et al ), deoxygenation (e.g., Hiddink et al ), acidification (e.g., Hurd ; Wahl et al ), or eutrophication (e.g., Holmer et al ). In consequence, a collapse of habitat‐formers in response to environmental shifts may have severe ramifications to the entire community (Smale and Wernberg ; Bulleri et al ).…”

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Season affects strength and direction of the interactive impacts of ocean warming and biotic stress in a coastal seaweed ecosystem

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Werner

Buchholz

et al. 2019

Limnology & Oceanography

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The plea for using more "realistic," community-level, investigations to assess the ecological impacts of global change has recently intensified. Such experiments are typically more complex, longer, more expensive, and harder to interpret than simple organism-level benchtop experiments. Are they worth the extra effort? Using outdoor mesocosms, we investigated the effects of ocean warming (OW) and acidification (OA), their combination (OAW), and their natural fluctuations on coastal communities of the western Baltic Sea during all four seasons. These communities are dominated by the perennial and canopy-forming macrophyte Fucus vesiculosus-an important ecosystem engineer Baltic-wide. We, additionally, assessed the direct response of organisms to temperature and pH in benchtop experiments, and examined how well organism-level responses can predict community-level responses to the dominant driver, OW. OW affected the mesocosm communities substantially stronger than acidification. OW provoked structural and functional shifts in the community that differed in strength and direction among seasons. The organism-level response to OW matched well the community-level response of a given species only under warm and cold thermal stress, that is, in summer and winter. In other seasons, shifts in biotic interactions masked the direct OW effects. The combination of direct OW effects and OW-driven shifts of biotic interactions is likely to jeopardize the future of the habitat-forming macroalga F. vesiculosus in the Baltic Sea. Furthermore, we conclude that seasonal mesocosm experiments are essential for our understanding of global change impact because they take into account the important fluctuations of abiotic and biotic pressures.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.Additional Supporting Information may be found in the online version of this article.

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Harnessing positive species interactions as a tool against climate-driven loss of coastal biodiversity

Cited by 105 publications

References 105 publications

Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant–bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success

Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant–bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success

Eco-evolutionary feedbacks and the maintenance of metacommunity diversity in a changing environment

Season affects strength and direction of the interactive impacts of ocean warming and biotic stress in a coastal seaweed ecosystem

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