A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change

A Gonzalez, JM Chase… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The causes of biodiversity change are of great scientific interest and central to policy efforts
aimed at meeting biodiversity targets. Changes in species diversity and high rates of …

Recent developments in empirical dynamic modelling

SB Munch, TL Rogers… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems are complex and sparsely observed making inference and prediction
challenging. Empirical dynamic modelling (EDM) circumvents the need for a parametric …

Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context

CW Chang, T Miki, H Ye, S Souissi, R Adrian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Untangling causal links and feedbacks among biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and
environmental factors is challenging due to their complex and context-dependent …

Alternative stable states, nonlinear behavior, and predictability of microbiome dynamics

H Fujita, M Ushio, K Suzuki, MS Abe, M Yamamichi… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Microbiome dynamics are both crucial indicators and potential drivers of human
health, agricultural output, and industrial bio-applications. However, predicting microbiome …

Effects of phytoplankton, viral communities, and warming on free-living and particle-associated marine prokaryotic community structure

YC Yeh, JA Fuhrman - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Free-living and particle-associated marine prokaryotes have physiological, genomic, and
phylogenetic differences, yet factors influencing their temporal dynamics remain poorly …

Interaction capacity as a potential driver of community diversity

M Ushio - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How patterns in community diversity emerge is a long-standing question in ecology. Studies
suggested that community diversity and interspecific interactions are interdependent …

Anticipating the occurrence and type of critical transitions

F Grziwotz, CW Chang, V Dakos, EH van Nes… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Critical transition can occur in many real-world systems. The ability to forecast the
occurrence of transition is of major interest in a range of contexts. Various early warning …

Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics

LP Medeiros, S Allesina, V Dakos, G Sugihara… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Managing ecological communities requires fast detection of species that are sensitive to
perturbations. Yet, the focus on recovery to equilibrium has prevented us from assessing …

Relationships of temperature and biodiversity with stability of natural aquatic food webs

Q Zhao, PJ Van den Brink, C Xu, S Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Temperature and biodiversity changes occur in concert, but their joint effects on ecological
stability of natural food webs are unknown. Here, we assess these relationships in 19 …

Decomposing predictability to identify dominant causal drivers in complex ecosystems

K Suzuki, SS Matsuzaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Ecosystems are complex systems of various physical, biological, and chemical processes.
Since ecosystem dynamics are composed of a mixture of different levels of stochasticity and …