Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans

被引：136

作者：

Payne, Jonathan L. ^{[1
]}

Bush, Andrew M. ^{[2
,3
]}

Heim, Noel A. ^{[1
]}

Knope, Matthew L. ^{[4
]}

McCauley, Douglas J. ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Geol Sci, 450 Serra Mall,Bldg 320, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[2] Univ Connecticut, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Storrs, CT 06269 USA

[3] Univ Connecticut, Ctr Integrat Geosci, Storrs, CT 06269 USA

[4] Univ Hawaii, Dept Biol, 200 West Kawili St, Hilo, HI 96720 USA

[5] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Ecol Evolut & Marine Biol, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2016年 / 353卷 / 6305期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

MARINE; PATTERNS; SIZE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSEQUENCES; ECOSYSTEMS; COLLAPSE;

D O I：

10.1126/science.aaf2416

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

To better predict the ecological and evolutionary effects of the emerging biodiversity crisis in the modern oceans, we compared the association between extinction threat and ecological traits in modern marine animals to associations observed during past extinction events using a database of 2497 marine vertebrate and mollusc genera. We find that extinction threat in the modern oceans is strongly associated with large body size, whereas past extinction events were either nonselective or preferentially removed smaller-bodied taxa. Pelagic animals were victimized more than benthic animals during previous mass extinctions but are not preferentially threatened in the modern ocean. The differential importance of large-bodied animals to ecosystem function portends greater future ecological disruption than that caused by similar levels of taxonomic loss in past mass extinction events.

引用

页码：1284 / 1286

页数：3

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