期刊
ECOLOGY
卷 91, 期 10, 页码 2819-2825出版社
ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1890/10-0260.1
关键词
food web; laboratory experiment; predation; temperature; top-down vs. bottom-up forces; Wyeomyia smithii
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资金
- Arthur J. Schmitt fellowship
- NSF [DEB-0717148, DEB-0608143]
Understanding how communities respond to changes in temperature is a major challenge for community ecology. Temperature influences the relative degree to which top-down and bottom-up forces structure ecological communities. In greenhouse experiments using the aquatic community found in pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea), I tested how temperature affected the relative importance of top-down (mosquito predation) and bottom-up (ant carcasses) forces on protozoa and bacteria populations. While bottom-up effects did not vary consistently with temperature, the top-down effects of predators on protozoa increased at higher temperatures. These results suggest that temperature could change the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up effects in ecological communities. Specifically, higher temperature may increase the strength of top-down effects by raising predator metabolic rate and concomitant processes (e. g., activity, foraging, digestion, growth) relative to cooler temperatures. These findings apply broadly to an understanding of trophic interactions in a variable environment and are especially relevant in the context of ongoing climate change.
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