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Predator control of marine communities increases with temperature across 115 degrees of latitude

2022; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 376; Issue: 6598 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.abc4916

1095-9203

Gail V. Ashton, Amy L. Freestone, J. Emmett Duffy, Mark E. Torchin, Brent J. Sewall, Brianna M. Tracy, Mariano Albano, Andrew H. Altieri, Luciana Altvater, J. Rolando Bastida-Zavala, Alejandro Bortolus, Antonio Brante, Viviana D. Bravo, Norah Brown, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Edward J. Buskey, Rosita Calderón Barrera, Brian S. Cheng, Rachel Collin, Ricardo Coutinho, Luis De Gracia, Gustavo M. Dias, Claudio DiBacco, Augusto A. V. Flores, Maria Angélica Haddad, Zvi Hoffman, Bruno Ibanez‐Erquiaga, Dean S. Janiak, Analí Jiménez Campeán, Inti Keith, Jean‐Charles Leclerc, Orlando Pedro Lecompte Pérez, Guilherme Ortigara Longo, Helena Matthews-Cascón, Cynthia H. McKenzie, Jessica A. Miller, Martín Munizaga, Lais P. D. Naval‐Xavier, Sérgio A. Navarrete, Carlos David Otálora-Rincón, Lilian A. Palomino-Alvarez, M. Gabriela Palomo, Chris Patrick, Cormack Pegau, Sandra V. Pereda, Rosana Moreira da Rocha, Carlos Rumbold, Carlos Sánchez, Adolfo Sanjuan-Muñoz, Carmen Schlöder, Evangelina Schwindt, Janina Seemann, Alan L. Shanks, Nuno Simões, Luís Felipe Skinner, Nancy Yolimar Suárez-Mozo, Martín Thiel, Nelson Valdivia, Ximena Vélez‐Zuazo, Edson A. Vieira, Bruno Vildoso, Ingo S. Wehrtmann, Matthew A. Whalen, Lynn Wilbur, Gregory M. Ruiz,

Marine and fisheries research

Early naturalists suggested that predation intensity increases toward the tropics, affecting fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes by latitude, but empirical support is still limited. Several studies have measured consumption rates across latitude at large scales, with variable results. Moreover, how predation affects prey community composition at such geographic scales remains unknown. Using standardized experiments that spanned 115° of latitude, at 36 nearshore sites along both coasts of the Americas, we found that marine predators have both higher consumption rates and consistently stronger impacts on biomass and species composition of marine invertebrate communities in warmer tropical waters, likely owing to fish predators. Our results provide robust support for a temperature-dependent gradient in interaction strength and have potential implications for how marine ecosystems will respond to ocean warming.