Towards a mechanistic understanding of temperature and enrichment effects on species interaction strength, omnivory and food-web structure

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 785-793

  Sentis, Arnaud ^a,b,c   Hemptinne, Jean Louis ^b   Brodeur, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climate change; Enrichment; Food web topology; Intraguild predation; Metabolic theory of ecology; Nonlinear interaction strength; Predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENRICHMENT; FOOD WEB; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; OMNIVORY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD-WEB TOPOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INSECT; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY; NONLINEAR INTERACTION STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENRICHMENT; FOOD-WEB TOPOLOGY; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY; NONLINEAR INTERACTION STRENGTH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; GLOBAL WARMING; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84901696605     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12281     Document Type: Article

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