Assessing the resilience of productivity to climate variability across management and climate gradients

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Assessing the resilience of productivity to climate variability across management and climate gradients The patterns and drivers of primary production are the foundation of ecosystems and food webs worldwide, and the products of primary production drive global carbon cycling and provide food and other key resources to people. Few studies that compare the patterns and… Read more »

Consumer Absence Generates Ecological Dissimilarity (CAGED)

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Consumer Absence Generates Ecological Dissimilarity (CAGED): A cross-ecosystem synthesis exploring the consequences of consumer loss on community variability Consumers are disappearing from ecosystems across the globe, the effects of which influence how the remaining community looks and functions. Recent case studies suggest that consumer loss leads to increased community variability across space. However, it remains… Read more »