Smaller species but larger stages: Warming effects on inter- and intraspecific community size structure.

ABSTRACT: Global warming can alter size distributions of animal communities, but the contribution of size shifts within versus between species to such changes remains unknown. In particular, it is unclear if expected body size shrinkage in response to warming, observed at the interspecific level, can be used to infer similar size shifts within species. In this study, we compare warming effects on interspecific (relative species abundance) versus intraspecific (relative stage abundance) size structure of competing consumers by analyzing stage-structured bioenergetic food web models consisting of one or two consumer species and two resources, parameterized for pelagic plankton. Varying composition and temperature and body size dependencies in these models, we predicted interspecific versus intraspecif

SUBMITTER: Uszko W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285768 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature