A freshwater predator hit twice by the effects of warming across trophic levels

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jonsson, Tomas ^a,b   Setzer, Malin ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CATCH STATISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALMONID; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL; WARMING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; FISHERY; FOOD WEB; JUVENILE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SALVELINUS; SPAWNING; SPECIES; TROPHIC LEVEL; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE; WINTER; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LAKE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SALMONINE; SEASON; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; SALVELINUS UMBLA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE; TROUT; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84923096522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6992     Document Type: Article

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