Imperial College London
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Professor Guy Woodward - Deputy Head of Department

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Professor of Ecology
 
 
 
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@article{Gray:2021:10.1038/s42003-020-01547-3,
author = {Gray, C and Ma, A and McLaughlin, O and Petit, S and Woodward, G and Bohan, DA},
doi = {10.1038/s42003-020-01547-3},
journal = {Communications Biology},
pages = {1--7},
title = {Ecological plasticity governs ecosystem services in multilayer networks},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01547-3},
volume = {4},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Agriculture is under pressure to achieve sustainable development goals for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Services in agro-ecosystems are typically driven by key species, and changes in the community composition and species abundance can have multifaceted effects. Assessment of individual services overlooks co-variance between different, but related, services coupled by a common group of species. This partial view ignores how effects propagate through an ecosystem. We conduct an analysis of 374 agricultural multilayer networks of two related services of weed seed regulation and gastropod mollusc predation delivered by carabid beetles. We found that weed seed regulation increased with the herbivore predation interaction frequency, computed from the network of trophic links between carabids and weed seeds in the herbivore layer. Weed seed regulation and herbivore interaction frequencies declined as the interaction frequencies between carabids and molluscs in the carnivore layer increased. This suggests that carabids can switch to gastropod predation with community change, and that link turnover rewires the herbivore and carnivore network layers affecting seed regulation. Our study reveals that ecosystem services are governed by ecological plasticity in structurally complex, multi-layer networks. Sustainable management therefore needs to go beyond the autecological approaches to ecosystem services that predominate, particularly in agriculture.
AU  - Gray,C
AU  - Ma,A
AU  - McLaughlin,O
AU  - Petit,S
AU  - Woodward,G
AU  - Bohan,DA
DO  - 10.1038/s42003-020-01547-3
EP  - 7
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 2399-3642
SP  - 1
TI  - Ecological plasticity governs ecosystem services in multilayer networks
T2  - Communications Biology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01547-3
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000611897700002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01547-3
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/87229
VL  - 4
ER  -
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