Authors
Clare Gray, Donald J Baird, Simone Baumgartner, Ute Jacob, Gareth B Jenkins, Eoin J O'Gorman, Xueke Lu, Athen Ma, Michael JO Pocock, Nele Schuwirth, Murray Thompson, Guy Woodward
Publication date
2014/10
Journal
Journal of Applied Ecology
Volume
51
Issue
5
Pages
1444-1449
Description
- Monitoring anthropogenic impacts is essential for managing and conserving ecosystems, yet current biomonitoring approaches lack the tools required to deal with the effects of stressors on species and their interactions in complex natural systems.
- Ecological networks (trophic or mutualistic) can offer new insights into ecosystem degradation, adding value to current taxonomically constrained schemes. We highlight some examples to show how new network approaches can be used to interpret ecological responses.
- Synthesis and applications. Augmenting routine biomonitoring data with interaction data derived from the literature, complemented with ground‐truthed data from direct observations where feasible, allows us to begin to characterise large numbers of ecological networks across environmental gradients. This process can be accelerated by adopting emerging technologies and novel analytical …
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