Warming shifts top-down and bottom-up control of pond food web structure and function

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1605, 2012, Pages 3008-3017

  Shurin, Jonathan B ^a   Clasen, Jessica L ^a   Greig, Hamish S ^a,b   Kratina, Pavel ^a,c   Thompson, Patrick L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Eutrophication; Food web structure; Microbial loop; Predator prey size ratio; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EUTROPHICATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL LOOP; PLANKTIVORE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

CANADA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866617755     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0243     Document Type: Article

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