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Toward a Generalizable Framework of Disturbance Ecology Through Crowdsourced Science

1 PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2 WSU - Washington State University
3 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
4 INSTAAR - Institute of Arctic Alpine Research [University of Colorado Boulder]
5 School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Birmingham]
6 E3S - Équipe 3 - Écologie, Évolution, Écosystemes Souterrains
7 ECU - East Carolina University [Greenville]
8 Michigan State University [East Lansing]
9 Texas A&M University [College Station]
10 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [Ann Arbor]
11 UMR ISPA - Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère
12 Wake Forest School of Medicine [Winston-Salem]
13 INIBIOMA-CONICET - Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente [Bariloche]
14 ISB - Institute for Systems Biology [Seattle]
15 LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley]
16 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
17 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES AND GEOGRAPHY HELSINKI FIN
18 Mote Marine Laboratory
19 CIDE - Desertification Research Centre
20 Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
21 Department of Biology, Duke University
22 ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Oak Ridge]
23 Emory University [Atlanta, GA]
24 IRHS - Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences
25 Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization
26 University of Wisconsin-Madison
27 UBC - University of British Columbia
28 University of Canterbury [Christchurch]
29 Indiana University [Bloomington]
30 Kansas Geological Survey
Ariane Peralta
Nicolas Fanin

Résumé

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.

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hal-03220658 , version 1 (07-05-2021)

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Emily Graham, Colin Averill, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Joseph Knelman, Stefan Krause, et al.. Toward a Generalizable Framework of Disturbance Ecology Through Crowdsourced Science. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021, 9, ⟨10.3389/fevo.2021.588940⟩. ⟨hal-03220658⟩
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