Asynchronous recovery of predators and prey conditions resilience to drought in a neotropical ecosystem.

ABSTRACT: The predicted increase in the intensity and frequency of drought events associated with global climate change will impose severe hydrological stress to freshwater ecosystems, potentially altering their structure and function. Unlike freshwater communities' direct response to drought, their post-drought recovery capacities remain understudied despite being an essential component driving ecosystem resilience. Here we used tank bromeliad as model ecosystem to emulate droughts of different duration and then assess the recovery capacities of ecosystem structure and function. We followed macroinvertebrate predator and prey biomass to characterize the recovery dynamics of trophic structure (i.e. predator-prey biomass ratio) during the post-drought rewetting phase. We showed that drought significa

SUBMITTER: Ruiz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9120075 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature