Samplonius, JM, Atkinson, A, Hassall, C orcid.org/0000-0002-3510-0728 et al. (18 more authors) (2021) Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5 (2). pp. 155-164. ISSN 2397-334X
Abstract
Climate warming has caused the seasonal timing of many components of ecological food chains to advance. In the context of trophic interactions, the match–mismatch hypothesis postulates that differential shifts can lead to phenological asynchrony with negative impacts for consumers. However, at present there has been no consistent analysis of the links between temperature change, phenological asynchrony and individual-to-population-level impacts across taxa, trophic levels and biomes at a global scale. Here, we propose five criteria that all need to be met to demonstrate that temperature-mediated trophic asynchrony poses a growing risk to consumers. We conduct a literature review of 109 papers studying 129 taxa, and find that all five criteria are assessed for only two taxa, with the majority of taxa only having one or two criteria assessed. Crucially, nearly every study was conducted in Europe or North America, and most studies were on terrestrial secondary consumers. We thus lack a robust evidence base from which to draw general conclusions about the risk that climate-mediated trophic asynchrony may pose to populations worldwide.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Copyright © 2020, Springer Nature Limited. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2020 10:34 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 10:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Nature Research |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41559-020-01357-0 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168874 |