Authors
Daniel Nelson, Michelle H. Busch, Darin A. Kopp, Daniel C. Allen
Publication date
2021
Journal
Journal of Animal Ecology
Description
- While climate change is altering ecosystems on a global scale, not all ecosystems are responding in the same way. The resilience of ecological communities may depend on whether food webs are producer‐ or detritus‐based (i.e. ‘green’ or ‘brown’ food webs, respectively), or both (i.e. ‘multi‐channel’ food web).
- Food web theory suggests that the presence of multiple energy pathways can enhance community stability and resilience and may modulate the responses of ecological communities to disturbances such as climate change. Despite important advances in food web theory, few studies have empirically investigated the resilience of ecological communities to climate change stressors in ecosystems with different primary energy channels.
- We conducted a factorial experiment using outdoor stream mesocosms to investigate the independent and interactive effects of warming and drought on invertebrate …
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Scholar articles
D Nelson, MH Busch, DA Kopp, DC Allen - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021