Species richness changes across two trophic levels simultaneously affect prey and consumer biomass

By Lars Gamfeldt, H. Hillebrand, P. Jonsson. 2005

177 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. J. Bruno
3. B. Cardinale
4. JJ Stachowicz
5. J. Lefcheck
6. Michel Loreau
7. David Tilman
8. F. Isbell

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. J. Bruno
3. B. Cardinale
4. Michel Loreau
5. JJ Stachowicz
6. F. Isbell
7. David Tilman
8. M. Vellend

In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. F. Isbell
3. B. Cardinale
4. Michel Loreau
5. David Tilman
6. Sally J. Holbrook
7. Russell J. Schmitt
8. J. Bruno

Citations in the corpus

• Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation? (2005, background): “In aquatic microcosms, effects of algal richness on primary productivity and community biomass have been shown to depend also on the richness of other trophic levels (bacteria × algal richness effects, Naeem et al. 2000; herbivore × algal richness effects, Gamfeldt et al. 2005).”
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, background): “Gamfeldt et al. (2005) factorially manipulated consumer (ciliates) and prey (algae) richness, finding more efficient use of resources (prey) and higher consumer biomass at higher consumer richness.”
• Effects of altered precipitation on insect community composition and structure in a meadow steppe (2014, background): “Altered insect community dynamics associated with precipitation are likely to have consequential influences on ecosystem functioning, particularly by affecting insect productivity (Gamfeldt et al., 2005; Borer et al., 2012), altering plant diversity and community composition (Mulder et al.”
• Why biodiversity is important to oceanography: potential roles of genetic, species, and trophic diversity in pelagic ecosystem processes (2006, background): “Further, the effects of diversity at one level often depend on the diversity at others (e.g. Duffy 2002, Gamfeldt et al. 2005), suggesting that, where possible, a factorial approach to diversity manipulations across trophic levels might prove insightful.”
• Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what’s known and what’s next? (2015, background): “The second study (Gamfeldt et al. 2005) tested the effect of algal prey richness on herbivore biomass.”
• Climate‐driven increases in storm frequency simplify kelp forest food webs (2011, background): “Simultaneous changes in diversity at multiple trophic levels can have complex and often unpredictable consequences for both primary and secondary production (Gamfeldt et al., 2005; Douglass et al., 2008).”
• Understanding the Effects of Marine Biodiversity on Communities and Ecosystems (2007, background): “Increasing richness of herbivorous ciliates strongly decreased total abundance of their algal prey (Gamfeldt et al. 2005), an effect attributable in part to complementarity because the mixture of three ciliate species reduced algal abundance well below the level achieved by any single ciliate…”
• The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity. (2007, background): “Interestingly, when both algal and herbivore diversity increased, the effects of herbivore diversity dominated, reducing algal biomass, probably reflecting the absence of inedible algal species (Gamfeldt et al. 2005).”