Data from: Quantifying coextinctions and ecosystem service vulnerability in coastal ecosystems experiencing climate warming
Data files
Jul 12, 2024 version files 65.72 KB
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all_robustness.csv
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ES_assignments.csv
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README.md
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species_ranks.csv
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sptraits_exposure.csv
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Abstract
Climate change is negatively impacting ecosystems and their contributions to human well-being, known as ecosystem services. Previous research has mainly focused on the direct effects of climate change on species and ecosystem services, leaving a gap in understanding the indirect impacts resulting from changes in species interactions within complex ecosystems. This knowledge gap is significant because the loss of a species in a food web can lead to additional species losses or "co-extinctions," particularly when the species most impacted by climate change are also the species that play critical roles in food web persistence or provide ecosystem services. Here, we present a framework to investigate the relationships among species vulnerability to climate change, their roles within the food web, their contributions to ecosystem services, and the overall persistence of these systems and services in the face of climate-induced species losses. To do this, we assess the robustness of food webs and their associated ecosystem services to climate-driven species extinctions in eight empirical rocky intertidal food webs. Across food webs, we find that highly connected species are not the most vulnerable to climate change. However, we find species that directly provide ecosystem services are more vulnerable to climate change and more connected than species that do not directly provide services, which results in ecosystem service provision collapsing before food webs. Overall, we find that food webs are more robust to climate change than the ecosystem services they provide and show that combining species roles in food webs and services with their vulnerability to climate change offer predictions about the impacts of coextinctions for future food web and ecosystem service persistence. However, these conclusions are limited by data availability and quality, underscoring the need for more comprehensive data collection on linking species roles in interaction networks and their vulnerabilities to climate change.
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1ns1rn92z
This project contains four datasets related to species and ecosystem service vulnerability to climate change. This README file describes the contents of each dataset, their format, and how they can be used.
Description of the data and file structure
- Ecosystem Service Assignment
- Species Traits and Exposure
- Species Vulnerability Rankings
- Robustness Values for All Sequences
1. Ecosystem Service Assignment
- File Name:
ES_assignments.csv - Description: Contains food web IDs, species IDs, taxonomy, common names, and ecosystem service
- Columns:
WebID: Unique identifier for each food web.SpeciesID: Unique identifier for each species.Taxonomy: Scientific name for each species.Common_name: Common name for each species (if applicable).EcoServ: Ecosystem service that species provides (if applicable).
- Usage: Useful for adding ecosystem services to food webs.
2. Species Traits and Exposure
- File Name:
sptraits_exposure.csv - Description: Contains species traits including metabolic type, movement type, degree, and thermal maximum along with species’ exposure to thermal extremes.
- Columns:
WebID: Unique identifier for each food web.SpeciesID: Unique identifier for each species.Taxonomy: Scientific name for each species.metabolic.type:Type of metabolism each species has (primary producer, invertebrate).movement.type: Mobility type for each species (walking, swimming, sessile).maxsst: Species’ thermal maximum (in degrees Celsius) based on OBIS records.nExceed.sst: number of days between the years 2000 and 2021 that a species’ thermal maximum was exceeded.meanExceed.sst: average temperature (in degrees Celsius) a species thermal maximum was exceed by between the years 2000 and 2021.degree.out: number of outgoing feeding links for each species (i.e., how many species feed on that species).degree.in: number of incoming feeding links for each species (i.e., how many species that species consumes).degree.all: total number of feeding links for each species.
- Usage: Useful for analyzing species vulnerabilities to climate extremes and relating it to their traits or roles in a food web.
3. Species Vulnerability Rankings
- File Name:
species_ranks.csv - Description: Contains the order of species vulnerability, from most to least vulnerable, for each climate-induced species loss sequence.
- Columns:
WebID: Unique identifier for each food web.SpeciesID: Unique identifier for each species.rank.seq1: species rank for sequence loss 1.rank.seq2: species rank for sequence loss 2.rank.seq3: species rank for sequence loss 3.rank.seq4: species rank for sequence loss 4.rank.seq5: species rank for sequence loss 5.rank.seq6: species rank for sequence loss 6.rank.seq7: species rank for sequence loss 7.rank.seq8: species rank for sequence loss 8.rank.seq9: species rank for sequence loss 9.rank.seq10: species rank for sequence loss 10.rank.seq11: species rank for sequence loss 11.rank.seq12: species rank for sequence loss 12.
- Usage: Useful for removing species from food webs in different orders based on metabolic type, mobility type, and exposure to thermal extremes.
4. Robustness Values for all sequences
- File Name:
all_robustness.csv - Description: Contains the order of species vulnerability, from most to least vulnerable, for each climate-induced species loss sequence.
- Columns:
WebID: Unique identifier for each food web.Sequence: Unique identifier for each sequence.Sequence_Type: Type of sequence (climate-induced, random, least-to-most-connected (lmc), most-to-least connected (mlc))Level: Food web (fw) or ecosystem service (es).Robustness: Robustness value for that loss sequence.
- Usage: Useful for comparing food web and ecosystem service robustness in different species loss scenarios.
Sharing/Access information
Data was derived from the following sources:
- Brose, Ulrich. GlobAL daTabasE of Traits and Food Web Architecture (GATEWAy). 1.0, DataCite, 11 Dec. 2018, https://doi.org/10.25829/idiv.283-3-756.