Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1421-1430

  Kratina, Pavel ^a,e   Greig, Hamish S ^a   Thompson, Patrick L ^a,b   Carvalho Pereira, Ticiana S A ^a,c   Shurin, Jonathan B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Community structure; Food webs; Indirect and direct temperature effects; Metabolic rates; Press perturbations; Productivity; Temporal variability; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ALGA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; MESOCOSM; PERTURBATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD CHAIN; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; SMEGMAMORPHA; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANKTON; SMEGMAMORPHA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862290903     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1595.1     Document Type: Article

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