Widespread reductions in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass

Inês S. Martins; Franziska Schrodt; Shane A. Blowes; Amanda E. Bates; Anne D. Bjorkman; Viviana Brambilla; Juan Carvajal-Quintero; Cher F. Y. Chow; Gergana N. Daskalova; Kyle Edwards; Nico Eisenhauer; Richard Field; Ada Fontrodona-Eslava; Jonathan J. Henn; Roel van Klink; Joshua S. Madin; Anne E. Magurran; Michael McWilliam; Faye Moyes; Brittany Pugh; Alban Sagouis; Isaac Trindade-Santos; Brian McGill; Jonathan M. Chase; Maria  Dornelas

doi:10.1101/2023.02.03.526822

Widespread reductions in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass

Inês S. Martins^*, Franziska Schrodt, Shane A. Blowes, Amanda E. Bates, Anne D. Bjorkman, Viviana Brambilla, Juan Carvajal-Quintero, Cher F. Y. Chow, Gergana N. Daskalova, Kyle Edwards, Nico Eisenhauer, Richard Field, Ada Fontrodona-Eslava, Jonathan J. Henn, Roel van Klink, Joshua S. Madin, Anne E. Magurran, Michael McWilliam, Faye Moyes, Brittany PughAlban Sagouis, Isaac Trindade-Santos, Brian McGill, Jonathan M. Chase, Maria Dornelas

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Biotic responses to global change include directional shifts in organismal traits. Body size, an integrative trait that determines demographic rates and ecosystem functions, is often thought to be shrinking in the Anthropocene. Here, we assess the prevalence of body size change in six taxon groups across 5,032 assemblage time-series spanning 1960-2020. Using the Price equation to partition this change into within-species body size versus compositional changes, we detect prevailing decreases in body size through time. Change in assemblage composition contributes more to body size changes than within-species trends, but both components show substantial variation in magnitude and direction. The biomass of assemblages remains remarkably stable as decreases in body size trade-off with increases in abundance.

Original language	English
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DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.03.526822
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2023

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Dornelas, M. (PI)
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1/05/19 → 30/04/29
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Changing biodiversity in changing: H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 TraChange
Dornelas, M. (PI) & Santos Martins, I. (CoI)
European Commission Joint Research Centre
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Biodiversity change in the Athropocene: Darwin, Wallace, Bates and biodiversity change in the Athropocene
Magurran, A. (PI)
The Leverhulme Trust
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Project: Standard

BodySize-Change: initial release of code for the "Widespread reductions in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass" manuscript
Martins, I. (Creator), Zenodo, 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7595981
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Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages
Martins, I. S., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., Carvajal-Quintero, J., Chow, C. F. Y., Daskalova, G. N., Edwards, K., Eisenhauer, N., Field, R., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Henn, J. J., van Klink, R., Madin, J. S., Magurran, A. E., McWilliam, M., Moyes, F. & Pugh, B. & 5 others, Sagouis, A., Trindade-Santos, I., McGill, B. J., Chase, J. M. & Dornelas, M., 8 Sept 2023, In: Science. 381, 6662, p. 1067-1071 5 p.
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Martins, I. S., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., Carvajal-Quintero, J., Chow, C. F. Y., Daskalova, G. N., Edwards, K., Eisenhauer, N., Field, R., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Henn, J. J., van Klink, R., Madin, J. S., Magurran, A. E., McWilliam, M., Moyes, F., ... Dornelas , M. (2023). Widespread reductions in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.03.526822

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Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages

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