Impact of simulated drought on ecosystem biomass production: an experimental test in stream mesocosms

By M. Ledger, François K. Edwards, L. Brown, A. Milner, G. Woodward. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology

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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).”
Freshwater food webs: towards a more fundamental understanding of biodiversity and community dynamics (2012, methodology): “Other experimental work showed that streams are affected strongly by intermittent drought, with marked species loss and secondary production declining by about half an order of magnitude (Ledger et al., 2011).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “In some regions, droughts occur predictably as part of the natural hydrologic cycle and species are able to tolerate such conditions (Bonada et al., 2007), but elsewhere unpredictable drought fragmentation can have devastating effects on aquatic food webs (Ledger et al., 2011).”
Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, methodology): “…(H) experimental streams used to investigate 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…”
Bats and Water: Anthropogenic Alterations Threaten Global Bat Populations (2016, result): “Ledger et al. (2011) found significant reduction in and suppression of secondary productivity by drought that could have severe constraining effects on terrestrial vertebrate predator populations, and Love et al. (2008) found similar effects in Arkansas, USA.”