Quantifying the evidence for ecological synergies.

By Emily S. Darling, Isabelle M. Côté. Ecology Letters, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Adapting to climate change: a perspective from evolutionary physiology (2010, background): “Although evidence for ecological synergies is limited at present (Darling & Côté 2008), multivariate studies are starting to emerge (e.g. Hayward et al. 2001, Juliano et al. 2002, Chown et al. 2007, Hoverman & Relyea 2007, Campero et al. 2008, Kristensen et al. 2008a, Liu et al. 2009).”
Interactive effects of multiple climate change variables on trophic interactions: a meta-analysis (2014, background): “Meta-analysis has already been effective in providing synthetic insights into the interacting effects of multiple anthropogenic variables, or “stressors”, like pollutants, invasive species, habitat fragmentation, and eutrophication on responses like species interactions within communities and ensuin”
Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation (2016, background): “Given the preponderance of studies that assume synergistic interactions (figure 1), metaanalyses offer an important baseline—in general, we should not expect more than one-third of stressor interactions to be synergistic (table 1; [15,16]).”
Net effects of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: a meta‐analysis (2016, background): “Empirical evidence of the net effects of multiple stressors on freshwaters remains very limited (but see Christensen et al., 2006; Darling & Cote, 2008; MantykaPringle et al., 2014) despite their impacts being greatest on freshwater biodiversity (Jenkins, 2003; WWF, 2014).”
Traits explain community disassembly and trophic contraction following experimental environmental change (2012, background): “It is now recognized that interactions between multiple stressors may lead to nonadditive outcomes (Vinebrooke et al., 2004; Brook et al., 2008; Darling & Côté, 2008), yet the rate and scale of biodiversity loss due to the effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation are not well…”
Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration (2015, background): “Interactions among multiple stressors are thought to lead to biological outcomes that are qualitatively and quantitatively different from those produced by single stressors (Christensen et al. 2006, Brook et al. 2008, Crain et al. 2008, Darling & Côté 2008).”
Sydney Harbour: a review of anthropogenic impacts on the biodiversity and ecosystem function of one of the world’s largest natural harbours (2015, background): “However, recent reviews and meta-analyses suggest that synergistic and antagonistic effects between stressors are also common and complex (Crain et al. 2008; Darling and Cote 2008).”
Reconceptualizing synergism and antagonism among multiple stressors (2015, background): “In contrast, Darling and Cote (2008) applied an additive null model in their evaluation of 112 multiple stressor experiments on animal mortality in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial communities. Not surprisingly, Holmstrup et al. (2010) reported synergisms in over half of their studies, whereas Da”
A decade of climate change experiments on marine organisms: procedures, patterns and problems (2012, background): “Yet, extensive meta-analyses of both marine (Crain et al., 2008) and non-marine (Darling & Côté, 2008) experiments have shown that concurrent impacts of multiple stressors are predominantly nonadditive and therefore cannot be understood or predicted in isolation from one another.”
Climate Change Impacts on Seagrass Meadows and Macroalgal Forests: An Integrative Perspective on Acclimation and Adaptation Potential (2018, background): “, 2011, 2015), and may not be predicted from the individual effect of each variable operating in isolation (Darling and Côté, 2008).”
Combined effects of temperature and ocean acidification on the juvenile individuals of the mussel Mytilus chilensis (2014, background): “There has been growing evidence that shows that many environmental stressors can act in a combinedmanner, thereby synergistically, antagonistically or additively affecting many physiological processes of marine organisms (Darling and Cote, 2008; Gooding et al., 2009; Schiedek et al., 2007).”
Understanding the responses of ocean biota to a complex matrix of cumulative anthropogenic change (2012, background): “However, only a few studies have considered both local and global anthropogenic drivers and their joint influence (Darling & Côté 2008).”
Managing the middle: A shift in conservation priorities based on the global human modification gradient (2019, background): “Fourth, our integration of different stressors assumes they act in an accumulative but mitigative fashion, which is in line with empirical evidence that suggests that interactions among impacts may be more commonly non‐additive than additive (Crain, Kroeker, & Halpern, 2008; Darling & Côté, 2008).”
New perspectives in benthic deep-sea microbial ecology (2015, background): “, induced by deep - sea drilling for oil extraction , deep - sea mining ) , which act at local and regional scales ( Darling and Côté , 2008 ; Alsterberg et al .”
Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world. (2010, background): “Understanding interactions among multiple drivers, including disturbances, remains a key general challenge in contemporary ecology (Darling and Cote 2008).”