Toward a Generalizable Framework of Disturbance Ecology Through Crowdsourced Science

• Autores: Graham, Emily B.; Averill, Colin; Bond-Lamberty, Ben; Knelman, Joseph; Krause, Stefan; Peralta, Ariane L.; Shade, Ashley; Smith, Peyton A.; Chen, Susan J.; Fanin, Nicolas; Freund, Cathryn; Garcia, Patricia Elizabeth; Gibbons, Sean M.; Van Goethem, Marc W.; Guebila, Marouen B.; Kemppinen, Julia; Nowicki, Robert J.; Pausas, Juli G.; Reed, Samuel P.; Rocca, Jennifer; Sengupta, Aditi; Sihi, Debjani; Simonin, Marie; Slowinski, Michal; Spawn, Seth A.; Sutherland, Ira; Tonkin, Jonathan D.; Wisnoski, Nathan I.; Zipper, Samuel C.
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: COMPOUNDING DISTURBANCES; ECOSYSTEM STABILITY; INTERACTING DISTURBANCES; PERTURBATION; RESILIENCE; RESISTANCE; SPATIAL; TEMPORAL
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Disturbances fundamentally alter ecosystem functions, yet predicting their impacts remains a key scientific challenge. While the study of disturbances is ubiquitous across many ecological disciplines, there is no agreed-upon, cross-disciplinary foundation for discussing or quantifying the complexity of disturbances, and no consistent terminology or methodologies exist. This inconsistency presents an increasingly urgent challenge due to accelerating global change and the threat of interacting disturbances that can destabilize ecosystem responses. By harvesting the expertise of an interdisciplinary cohort of contributors spanning 42 institutions across 15 countries, we identified an essential limitation in disturbance ecology: the word ‘disturbance’ is used interchangeably to refer to both the events that cause, and the consequences of, ecological change, despite fundamental distinctions between the two meanings. In response, we developed a generalizable framework of ecosystem disturbances, providing a well-defined lexicon for understanding disturbances across perspectives and scales. The framework results from ideas that resonate across multiple scientific disciplines and provides a baseline standard to compare disturbances across fields. This framework can be supplemented by discipline-specific variables to provide maximum benefit to both inter- and intra-disciplinary research. To support future syntheses and meta-analyses of disturbance research, we also encourage researchers to be explicit in how they define disturbance drivers and impacts, and we recommend minimum reporting standards that are applicable regardless of scale. Finally, we discuss the primary factors we considered when developing a baseline framework and propose four future directions to advance our interdisciplinary understanding of disturbances and their social-ecological impacts: integrating across ecological scales, understanding disturbance interactions, establishing baselines and trajectories, and developing process-based models and ecological forecasting initiatives. Our experience through this process motivates us to encourage the wider scientific community to continue to explore new approaches for leveraging Open Science principles in generating creative and multidisciplinary ideas.
Fil: Graham, Emily B.. United States Department of Energy; Estados Unidos
Fil: Averill, Colin. Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule zurich (eth Zurich);
Fil: Bond-Lamberty, Ben. United States Department of Energy; Estados Unidos
Fil: Knelman, Joseph. University of Colorado; Estados Unidos
Fil: Krause, Stefan. University Of Birmingham; Reino Unido
Fil: Peralta, Ariane L.. East Carolina University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Shade, Ashley. Michigan State University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Smith, Peyton A.. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Chen, Susan J.. University of Michigan; Estados Unidos
Fil: Fanin, Nicolas. Bordeaux Sciences Agro; Francia
Fil: Freund, Cathryn. University Wake Forest; Estados Unidos
Fil: Garcia, Patricia Elizabeth. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina
Fil: Gibbons, Sean M.. Institute For Systems Biology; Estados Unidos
Fil: Van Goethem, Marc W.. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Estados Unidos
Fil: Guebila, Marouen B.. Harvard University. Harvard School of Public Health; Estados Unidos
Fil: Kemppinen, Julia. University of Helsinki; Finlandia
Fil: Nowicki, Robert J.. Mote Marine Laboratory And Aquarium; Estados Unidos
Fil: Pausas, Juli G.. Centro de Investigación; España
Fil: Reed, Samuel P.. University of Minnesota; Estados Unidos
Fil: Rocca, Jennifer. University of Duke; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sengupta, Aditi. United States Department of Energy; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sihi, Debjani. University of Emory; Estados Unidos
Fil: Simonin, Marie. Institut Agro; Francia
Fil: Slowinski, Michal. Institute Of Geography And Spatial Organization Polish; Polonia
Fil: Spawn, Seth A.. University of Wisconsin; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sutherland, Ira. University of British Columbia; Canadá
Fil: Tonkin, Jonathan D.. University of Canterbury; Nueva Zelanda
Fil: Wisnoski, Nathan I.. Indiana University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Zipper, Samuel C.. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos