Warming, eutrophication, and predator loss amplify subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 504-514

  Greig, Hamish S ^a   Kratina, Pavel ^a   Thompson, Patrick L ^a,b   Palen, Wendy J ^c   Richardson, John S ^a   Shurin, Jonathan B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthonous resources; Amphibians; Climate warming; Detritus decomposition; Global change; Insect emergence; Spatial subsidies; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONY; AMPHIBIAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; DECOMPOSITION; DETRITUS; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CHANGE; INSECT; MESOCOSM; PREDATOR; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; WARMING;

AMPHIBIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84855835019     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02540.x     Document Type: Article

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