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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Zheng, Hui, Min, Cheng, Jiao, Yuan, Ziming, Sha, Zhongli
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Veröffentlicht: Environmental research 2025
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author Zhang, Zheng
Hui, Min
Cheng, Jiao
Yuan, Ziming
Sha, Zhongli
author_facet Zhang, Zheng
Hui, Min
Cheng, Jiao
Yuan, Ziming
Sha, Zhongli
Zhang, Zheng
Hui, Min
Cheng, Jiao
Yuan, Ziming
Sha, Zhongli
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Warming and anthropogenic variables interact to impact dominant animal communities in coral reef ecosystems. Zhang, Zheng Hui, Min Cheng, Jiao Yuan, Ziming Sha, Zhongli Coral Reefs Animals Fishes China Invertebrates Anthropogenic Effects Biodiversity Climate Change Global Warming Metals, Heavy Ecosystem Environmental Monitoring DNA, Environmental Water Pollutants, Chemical Climate warming and human activities independently threaten coral reef ecosystems, yet their combined impacts on reef animal communities remain unclear. Here, we applied environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys across 52 reefs in the South China Sea to examine how fish and invertebrate communities respond to warming, increased resource availability, and heavy metal pollution. Fish communities were more sensitive to warming than invertebrates. Warming reduced dispersal limitation in fish but increased it in invertebrates, indicating divergent assembly mechanisms. The variation of animal community stability driven by warming depends mainly on fish diversity-mediated pathways. Moreover, increased resource availability and heavy metal pollution interacted with warming in opposite directions to influence the stability of dominant animal communities; increased resource availability intensified warming-induced instability. These findings underscore the complex, context-dependent interactions between climate and anthropogenic stressors and highlight the importance of integrating global and local pressures in coral reef conservation efforts.
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spellingShingle Warming and anthropogenic variables interact to impact dominant animal communities in coral reef ecosystems.
Zhang, Zheng
Hui, Min
Cheng, Jiao
Yuan, Ziming
Sha, Zhongli
Coral Reefs
Animals
Fishes
China
Invertebrates
Anthropogenic Effects
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Global Warming
Metals, Heavy
Ecosystem
Environmental Monitoring
DNA, Environmental
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Warming and anthropogenic variables interact to impact dominant animal communities in coral reef ecosystems. Zhang, Zheng Hui, Min Cheng, Jiao Yuan, Ziming Sha, Zhongli Coral Reefs Animals Fishes China Invertebrates Anthropogenic Effects Biodiversity Climate Change Global Warming Metals, Heavy Ecosystem Environmental Monitoring DNA, Environmental Water Pollutants, Chemical Climate warming and human activities independently threaten coral reef ecosystems, yet their combined impacts on reef animal communities remain unclear. Here, we applied environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys across 52 reefs in the South China Sea to examine how fish and invertebrate communities respond to warming, increased resource availability, and heavy metal pollution. Fish communities were more sensitive to warming than invertebrates. Warming reduced dispersal limitation in fish but increased it in invertebrates, indicating divergent assembly mechanisms. The variation of animal community stability driven by warming depends mainly on fish diversity-mediated pathways. Moreover, increased resource availability and heavy metal pollution interacted with warming in opposite directions to influence the stability of dominant animal communities; increased resource availability intensified warming-induced instability. These findings underscore the complex, context-dependent interactions between climate and anthropogenic stressors and highlight the importance of integrating global and local pressures in coral reef conservation efforts.
title Warming and anthropogenic variables interact to impact dominant animal communities in coral reef ecosystems.
topic Coral Reefs
Animals
Fishes
China
Invertebrates
Anthropogenic Effects
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Global Warming
Metals, Heavy
Ecosystem
Environmental Monitoring
DNA, Environmental
Water Pollutants, Chemical
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40803398/