Space-for-time substitution reveals partial transferability of marine biodiversity-temperature relationships
Costa Rillo, M.; Moeller, L.; Jonkers, L.; Merder, J.; Hillebrand, H.
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Forecasts of biodiversity responses to climate change often rely on space-for-time substitution, in which spatial biodiversity-climate relationships are used to predict biodiversity change through time. Yet this approach is rarely tested directly because long-term biodiversity time series are scarce. Here, we combine global modern and fossil assemblage data of planktonic foraminifera with site-specific sea-surface temperature reconstructions to compare biodiversity-temperature relationships across space and time. Spatial and temporal compositional turnover models showed similar slopes but consistently different intercepts, with spatial models predicting higher turnover across the full temperature gradient. Restricting the spatial comparison to the environmental domain of individual fossil time series reduced, but did not eliminate, this intercept mismatch. For alpha diversity, spatial models more closely recovered the temporal biodiversity-temperature relationship than for compositional turnover. Thus, for the timescales studied here, space-for-time substitution captures the direction of biodiversity change but not its magnitude through time.
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