Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs

By M. Ledger, L. Brown, François K. Edwards, A. Milner, G. Woodward. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Historical legacies accumulate to shape future biodiversity in an era of rapid global change (2015, background): “…capacity, and trophic position for species (Allendorf & Hard, 2009; Kuussaari et al., 2009; Krauss et al., 2010; Cousins & Vanhoenacker, 2011; Ledger et al., 2013); generation time, population size and mating system for genetic diversity (B alint et al., 2011); and functional traits of…”
Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “…the effect of drought on stream communities at the FBARiver Laboratory, Dorset, UK (Harris et al., 2007; Ledger et al., 2009, 2011, Ledger et al., 2012, Ledger et al., 2013a,b; Woodward et al., 2012; Photo: M. Ledger); (I) tidal marsh mesocosm at the Horn Point Laboratory, Centre for…”
Hydrology shapes taxonomic and functional structure of desert stream invertebrate communities (2015, background): “The strong environmental gradients imposed by flow also impose a strong ‘habitat filter’ (sensu Southwood 1977, 1988) that directly controls the taxonomic and trait composition of communities (Williams 2006, Gallart et al. 2012,Mims andOlden 2012, Belmar et al. 2013, Ledger et al. 2013b).”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “…networks which influence the resulting ecological processes and ecosystem services, and their responses to disturbance and environmental change (e.g. Chapin et al., 2000; Hagen et al., 2012; Lavorel and Garnier, 2002; Ledger et al., 2012, 2013; Naeem et al., 2000; Vandermeer et al., 2008).”
Invertebrate assemblages of pools in arid‐land streams have high functional redundancy and are resistant to severe drying (2014, background): “stress in our system (Bogan & Lytle, 2007, 2011), and both body size (Daufresne, Lengfellner & Sommer, 2009; Walters & Post, 2010) and trophic level (Woodward et al., 2012; Ledger et al., 2013) are strongly affected by drying.”