FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Trait structure and redundancy determine sensitivity to disturbance in marine fish communities BT AF McLean, Matthew Auber, Arnaud Graham, Nicholas A J Houk, Peter Villéger, Sébastien Violle, Cyrille Thuiller, Wilfried Wilson, Shaun K. Mouillot, David AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:3;4:4;5:2;6:5;7:6;8:7,8;9:2,9; FF 1:;2:PDG-RBE-HMMN-LRHBL;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 IFREMER Unité Halieutique de Manche et mer du Nord 62321 Boulogne‐sur‐Mer, France MARBEC Université de Montpellier CNRS IFREMER IRD 34095 Montpellier Cedex, France Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University LancasterLA1 4YQ, UK UOG Station University of Guam Marine Laboratory Mangilao Guam 96923, USA Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5175 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université de Montpellier Université Paul‐Valéry Montpellier Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) Montpellier ,France Univ. Grenoble Alpes CNRS Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA) F‐38000 Grenoble, France Department of Parks and Wildlife Kensington, Perth Western Australia 6151, Australia Oceans Institute University of Western Australia Crawley Western Australia 6009, Australia Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies James Cook University Townsville QLD 4811, Australia C2 IFREMER, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE UNIV LANCASTER, UK UNIV GUAM, USA CNRS, FRANCE UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES, FRANCE PARKS WILDLIFE SERVICE, AUSTRALIA UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA UNIV JAMES COOK, AUSTRALIA SI BOULOGNE SE PDG-RBE-HMMN-LRHBL UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Cotutelle UMR copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 8.555 TC 61 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00490/60184/63525.pdf LA English DT Article CR CGFS : CHANNEL GROUND FISH SURVEY DE ;climate change;coral reefs;diversity stability;ecological traits;ecosystem functioning;English Channel;functional diversity AB ‘Functional’ diversity is believed to influence ecosystem dynamics through links between organismal traits and ecosystem processes. Theory predicts that key traits and high trait redundancy – large species richness and abundance supporting the same traits – can buffer communities against environmental disturbances. While experiments and data from simple ecological systems lend support, large‐scale evidence from diverse, natural systems under major disturbance is lacking. Here, using long‐term data from both temperate (English Channel) and tropical (Seychelles Islands) fishes, we show that sensitivity to disturbance depends on communities’ initial trait structure and initial trait redundancy. In both ecosystems, we found that increasing dominance by climatically‐vulnerable traits rendered fish communities more sensitive to environmental change, while communities with higher trait redundancy were more resistant. To our knowledge, this is the first study demonstrating the influence of trait structure and redundancy on community sensitivity over large temporal and spatial scales in natural systems. Our results exemplify a consistent link between biological structure and community sensitivity that may be transferable across ecosystems and taxa and could help anticipate future disturbance impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. PY 2019 PD OCT SO Global Change Biology SN 1354-1013 PU Wiley VL 25 IS 10 UT 000486150200018 BP 3424 EP 3437 DI 10.1111/gcb.14662 ID 60184 ER EF