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Terrestrial ecosystems become increasingly vulnerable to global change as the number of environmental stressors rises, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience. The paper highlights a significant decrease in ecosystem resistance to global change, particularly when these stressors are sustained over time.
The international study, led by Spain’s IRNAS-CSIC with the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Laboratory (BioFunLab) and the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, analysed 1,023 global change experiments worldwide in collaboration with ten other international institutions. A summary can be found on the iDiv website.
Original title of the publication in Nature Geoscience:
"Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors" , doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41561’024 -01518-x
