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#Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales.

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Diffusion of constructed resources and specialism promote facilitation in spatial systems

https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11025

#Competition #Facilitation #Resources #NicheConstruction #Modeling #MetaEcosystem

@tiannapeller.bsky.social et al:

#Foodweb #coupling by mobile #consumers has individual to #ecosystem level effects.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#biodiversity #metaecosystem #ecology @ema-giacomuzzo.bsky.social @eawag.bsky.social & #UZH

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👀Is an ecosystem perspective sufficient to understand meta-ecosystem processes? A critical reflection

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#AquaticTerrestrialCoupling #MetaEcosystem #NetworkTheory #RiparianEcosystem

Among holistic thinkers, it's common to call Earth a "single organism" or a "superorganism" — Lovelock frequently used the latter. I understand the impulse, but I avoid doing so bc I think it confuses things. Earth is not a superorganism — it's closer to a metaecosystem, a living web of ecologies

2/3 We analyzed metaecosystem models with homogeneously versus heterogeneously distributed resource flow networks but otherwise identical characteristics. #ecology #biodiversity

Interested in our research? Then attend our talks at #BES2023 @BritishEcolSoc!

Upcoming on Wednesday is #TiannaPeller in ‘Theoretical and Computational Ecology’ session, talking at 12–12:15 about indirect #spatial effects and #metaecosystem resilience in a changing world. 1/5

Building Connections: How the flow of resource networks drives ecosystem function and diversity

Summary and analysis by Nidhi Vinod of “Resource Flow Network Structure Drives Metaecosystem Function” by Peller et al.
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3/3 Metaecosystem function can differ strongly between metaecosystems w/ contrasting resource flow networks, suggesting that spatial structure of resource flow networks can drive ecosystem function at landscape scales.

by #TiannaPeller, #IsabelleGounand & #myself
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Non-living resources frequently flow across ecosystem boundaries, yielding networks of spatially-coupled ecosystems. Peller et al. show ecosystem function at landscape scales can depend on the spatial structure of resource flow networks. Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🛶🔣Asynchronous river floodplain environment dampens ecological variability across scales

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#Floodplain #Landscapes #Metacommunity #MetaEcosystem #MobileConsumers #TemporalVariability

Neat stable isotope study by the #Systemlink group comparing aquatic versus terrestrial sources and six spider species over time in adjacent lotic and lentic ecosystems #SIA #metaecosystem

3/3 #biodiversity #metaecosystem #ecology #disturbance

With: Tianna Peller (@tiannapeller.bsky.social), Isabelle Gounand, Silvana Käser, Florian Altermatt (@florianaltermatt.bsky.social)

At: University of Zurich, Eawag (@eawag.bsky.social)