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Unexpected changes in community size structure in a natural warming experiment

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  • Eoin J. O’Gorman

    (Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus)

  • Lei Zhao

    (Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus
    Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University
    University of Kansas)

  • Doris E. Pichler

    (School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London)

  • Georgina Adams

    (Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus)

  • Nikolai Friberg

    (NIVA, Norwegian Institute for Water Research)

  • Björn C. Rall

    (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
    Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

  • Alex Seeney

    (School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London)

  • Huayong Zhang

    (Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University)

  • Daniel C. Reuman

    (University of Kansas
    Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University)

  • Guy Woodward

    (Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus)

Abstract

A warmer climate is generally expected to favour smaller organisms and steeper body-mass–abundance scaling through food webs. Results from across a stream temperature gradient now show that this effect can be offset by increasing nutrient supply.

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  • Eoin J. O’Gorman & Lei Zhao & Doris E. Pichler & Georgina Adams & Nikolai Friberg & Björn C. Rall & Alex Seeney & Huayong Zhang & Daniel C. Reuman & Guy Woodward, 2017. "Unexpected changes in community size structure in a natural warming experiment," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 7(9), pages 659-663, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:7:y:2017:i:9:d:10.1038_nclimate3368
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3368
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