Authors
Micael Jonsson, Per Hedström, Karolina Stenroth, Erin R Hotchkiss, Francisco Rivera Vasconcelos, Jan Karlsson, Pär Byström
Publication date
2015/1/1
Journal
Freshwater Biology
Volume
60
Issue
1
Pages
78-88
Description
- Climate change is expected to not only raise water temperatures, but also to cause brownification of aquatic ecosystems via increased inputs of terrestrial dissolved organic matter. While efforts have been made to understand how increased temperature and brownification separately influence aquatic food webs, their interactive effects have been less investigated. Further, although climate change effects on aquatic ecosystems likely will propagate to terrestrial consumers via changes in aquatic insect emergence, this has rarely been studied.
- We investigated the effect of climate change on aquatic insect emergence, in a large‐scale outdoor pond facility where 16 sections – each containing natural food webs including a fish top‐consumer population – were subjected to warming (3 °C above ambient temperatures) and/or brownification (by adding naturally humic stream water). Aquatic insect emergence was …
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