Massive thanks to everyone in the @michcjackson.bsky.social@oxfordbiology.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1111/ele....
Ecology Letters is a broad-scope ecology journal considering all taxa, in any biome and geographic area, and spanning community, microbial & evolutionary ecology.
Check out the interactive version of the dataset here: jamesaorr.shinyapps.io/freshwater-m... You can view, visualise, and download different subsets of the data and you can also explore our stressor taxonomy and stressor co-occurrence networks!
Thanks to funding from the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social, we were able to make an interactive version of the dataset that can be used to quickly find publications relevant to your work, to identify knowledge gaps, and to contribute additional information to future versions of the dataset.
We also ask if there is an āidealā multiple-stressor experiment by comparing different experimental designs based on how informative and feasible they are.
In our synthesis we explore whether or not the statistical interactions observed by these experiments actually reflect the stressor interactions that researchers are interested in, and we propose a framework (below) to help understand this.
The relative interest in different stressors has fluctuated over time and some combinations of stressors are far more likely to be studied than others. Temperature has become more popular in the past decade and has been paired with virtually all other types of stressors.
Thereās been a lot of work done on stressor interactions ā about four or five studies (from freshwater systems alone) are currently being published every week. These experiments have studied the effects of over 900 stressors (>80% of these being different chemicals).
Multiple-stressor research is very diverse, so doing comprehensive reviews with traditional tools is almost impossible. We used a machine-learning approach to screen one quarter of a million abstracts and found >2300 studies ā an order of magnitude higher than previous reviews!
Iām really excited to share our new synthesis of 2,396 (!) multiple-stressor experiments conducted in freshwater ecosystems thatās just been published in Ecology Letters: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
My newsletter is now ten posts old. I think I can sustain this pace: one article every 1-2 weeks. Biodiversity-climate nexus, with a touch of water resource management: predictions, redirections, adaptations. If you're interested, go check in out. It's free. predirections.substack.com
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