Ecosystem synchrony: an emerging property to elucidate ecosystem responses to global change
Understanding ecosystem responses to global change have long challenged scientists due to notoriously complex properties arising from the interplay between biological and environmental factors. We propose the concept of ecosystem synchrony - that is, similarity in the temporal fluctuations of an ecosystem function between multiple ecosystems - to overcome this challenge. Ecosystem synchrony can manifest due to spatially correlated environmental fluctuations (Moran effect), exchange of energy, nutrients, and organic matter and similarity in biotic characteristics across ecosystems. By taking advantage of long-term surveys, remote sensing and the increased use of high-frequency sensors to assess ecosystem functions, ecosystem synchrony can foster our understanding of the coordinated ecosystem responses at unexplored spatiotemporal scales, identify emerging portfolio effects among ecosystems, and deliver signals of ecosystem perturbations.
Authors
- Chloé Vagnon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6201-7110)
- Julian D. Olden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-1187)
- Michelle C. Jackson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2227-1111)
- Stéphanie Boulêtreau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0094-0196)
- Élisa Thébault (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9669-5227)
- Mathieu Chevalier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1170-5343)
- Rosalie Bruel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8351-7539)
- Pablo A. Tedesco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5972-5928)
- Gordon W. Holtgrieve (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4451-3567)
- Flavien Garcia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0302-7255)
- Julien Cucherousset (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0533-9479)
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (FR)
- Ifremer (FR)
- Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (FR)
- Université Paris-Est Créteil (FR)
- University of Washington (US)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Centre de Recherche et d’Enseignement de Géosciences de l’Environnement (FR)
- Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris (FR)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
- Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Published
- 2024-08-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.003
- Citations
- 13
- Primary Topic
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.97
Funders
- Laboratoire d'Excellence TULIP
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Office Français de la Biodiversité