Trophic interactions modify the temperature dependence of community biomass and ecosystem function.

ABSTRACT: Aquatic ecosystems worldwide continue to experience unprecedented warming and ecological change. Warming increases metabolic rates of animals, plants, and microbes, accelerating their use of energy and materials, their population growth, and interaction rates. At a much larger biological scale, warming accelerates ecosystem-level processes, elevating fluxes of carbon and oxygen between biota and the atmosphere. Although these general effects of temperature at finer and broader biological scales are widely observed, they can lead to contradictory predictions for how warming affects the structure and function of ecological communities at the intermediate scale of biological organization. We experimentally tested the hypothesis that the presence of predators and their associated species inter

SUBMITTER: Garzke J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6586427 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature