ReviewEcology letters2022
Local stressors mask the effects of warming in freshwater ecosystems.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Biodiversity Loss on Freshwater Ecosystem Functions Increase With the Number of Stressors.Global change biology · 2025Pooled it
- Gene-to-Population Level Responses to Multiple Stressors on the Rocky Shore.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Hypothesis-Driven Research on Multiple Stressors: An Analytical Framework for Stressor Interactions.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Multi-Decadal Trends in Northern Lakes Show Contrasting Responses of Phytoplankton and Benthic Macroinvertebrates to Climate Change.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic clustering of microbial communities as a biomarker for chemical pollution.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Reconciling Variability in Multiple Stressor Effects Using Environmental Performance Curves.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Functional redundancy enhances microbial resilience in streams: mitigating flow perturbations.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Conservation physiology of freshwater fishes: an illustration of pressing questions and implications for management.Conservation physiology · 2025Article
- Measuring the Response Diversity of Ecological Communities Experiencing Multifarious Environmental Change.Global change biology · 2024Article
- Predicting the Combined Effects of Multiple Stressors and Stress Adaptation inEnvironmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Temporal patterns in multiple stressors shape the vulnerability of overwintering Arctic zooplankton.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- High-throughput characterization of bacterial responses to complex mixtures of chemical pollutants.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Human pressures modulate climate-warming-induced changes in size spectra of stream fish communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Climate warming effects on stream-fish size spectra are modulated by other perturbations.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Local stressors mask the effects of warming in freshwater ecosystems.Ecology letters · 2022Review
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7 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Climate warming is a ubiquitous stressor in freshwater ecosystems, yet its interactive effects with other stressors are poorly understood. We address this knowledge gap by testing the ability of three contrasting null models to predict the joint impacts of warming and a range of other aquatic stressors using a new database of 296 experimental combinations. Despite concerns that stressors will interact to cause synergisms, we found that net impacts were usually best explained by the effect of the stronger stressor alone (the dominance null model), especially if this stressor was a local disturbance associated with human land use. Prediction accuracy depended on stressor identity and how asymmetric stressors were in the magnitude of their effects. These findings suggest we can effectively predict the impacts of multiple stressors by focusing on the stronger stressor, as habitat alteration, nutrients and contamination often override the biological consequences of higher temperatures in freshwater ecosystems.
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