Scaling up to food webs: Effects of temperature on structure and function along a latitudinal gradient
Global warming will affect every level of biological organization from the metabolism of individuals to the functioning of ecosystems. I explored the effects of warming on three rock-pool meioinvertebrate communities along a latitudinal gradient (temperate, tropical, and sub-Arctic regions) to deter...
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ftcanadathes:oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:NSHD.ca#10222/13047 2023-05-15T14:55:02+02:00 Scaling up to food webs: Effects of temperature on structure and function along a latitudinal gradient Tuck, Constance 2010-09-09T13:53:32Z http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13047 en eng http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13047 Food webs climate change latitudinal gradient Thesis 2010 ftcanadathes 2013-11-23T23:00:01Z Global warming will affect every level of biological organization from the metabolism of individuals to the functioning of ecosystems. I explored the effects of warming on three rock-pool meioinvertebrate communities along a latitudinal gradient (temperate, tropical, and sub-Arctic regions) to determine effects on community and food-web structure and functioning. Warming affected regions differently, having a positive effect on sub-Arctic communities, a negative effect on temperate communities, and intermediate responses in tropical communities in terms of abundance, stability and extinction frequency. Differences in structural properties of the food webs supported the insurance hypothesis: that greater redundancy in webs results in greater stability, and helped to explain why the tropical community was more stable than the temperate community in warmed treatments. My study highlights the importance of considering differential response of species and communities from different latitudes and the importance of food web structure in predicting species response to global climate change. Thesis Arctic Climate change Global warming Theses Canada/Thèses Canada (Library and Archives Canada) Arctic |
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Global warming will affect every level of biological organization from the metabolism of individuals to the functioning of ecosystems. I explored the effects of warming on three rock-pool meioinvertebrate communities along a latitudinal gradient (temperate, tropical, and sub-Arctic regions) to determine effects on community and food-web structure and functioning. Warming affected regions differently, having a positive effect on sub-Arctic communities, a negative effect on temperate communities, and intermediate responses in tropical communities in terms of abundance, stability and extinction frequency. Differences in structural properties of the food webs supported the insurance hypothesis: that greater redundancy in webs results in greater stability, and helped to explain why the tropical community was more stable than the temperate community in warmed treatments. My study highlights the importance of considering differential response of species and communities from different latitudes and the importance of food web structure in predicting species response to global climate change. |
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Scaling up to food webs: Effects of temperature on structure and function along a latitudinal gradient |
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