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  • Marine ecology
  • Ecosystem dynamics
  • Climate change impacts

Background:

  • Disturbances are key to ecosystem variability and diversity maintenance.
  • Global change impacts disturbance regimes, yet recovery dynamics under future scenarios are poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate marine species' recovery patterns post-disturbance under varying ocean acidification levels.
  • To assess how acidification influences community variability and functional diversity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized volcanic CO2 vents to simulate ambient, low, and extreme low pH conditions.
  • Cleared shallow rocky reef plots to observe recovery dynamics across pH gradients.

Main Results:

  • Acidification decreased community variability, leading to homogenization and reduced functional diversity.
  • Recovery trajectories were more predictable under acidification, resulting in similar algal-dominated assemblages.
  • Low pH zones showed reduced biological disturbance and faster recovery of dominant algae.

Conclusions:

  • Environmental change, specifically ocean acidification, simplifies ecosystems by altering community dynamics.
  • This simplification leads to cascading impacts on functional diversity and overall ecosystem function.