For flux's sake: General considerations for energy-flux calculations in ecological communities.

ABSTRACT: Global change alters ecological communities with consequences for ecosystem processes. Such processes and functions are a central aspect of ecological research and vital to understanding and mitigating the consequences of global change, but also those of other drivers of change in organism communities. In this context, the concept of energy flux through trophic networks integrates food-web theory and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning theory and connects biodiversity to multitrophic ecosystem functioning. As such, the energy-flux approach is a strikingly effective tool to answer central questions in ecology and global-change research. This might seem straight forward, given that the theoretical background and software to efficiently calculate energy flux are readily available. However, the

SUBMITTER: Jochum M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8495806 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature