Resilience dynamics and productivity-driven shifts in the marine communities of the Western Mediterranean Sea.

ABSTRACT: Ecological resilience has become a conceptual cornerstone bridging ecological processes to conservation needs. Global change is increasingly associated with local changes in environmental conditions that can cause abrupt ecosystem reorganizations attending to system-specific resilience fluctuations with time (i.e. resilience dynamics). Here we assess resilience dynamics associated with climate-driven ecosystems transitions, expressed as changes in the relevant contribution of species with different life-history strategies, in two benthopelagic systems. We analysed data from 1994 to 2019 coming from a scientific bottom trawl survey in two environmentally contrasting ecosystems in the Western Mediterranean Sea-Northern Spain and Alboran Sea. Benthopelagic species were categorized according t

SUBMITTER: Hidalgo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9300018 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature