Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: A systematic review

L Bonacina, F Fasano, V Mezzanotte… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Water temperature is one of the main abiotic factors affecting the structure and functioning of
aquatic ecosystems and its alteration can have important effects on biological communities …

A simple model predicts how warming simplifies wild food webs

EJ O'Gorman, OL Petchey, KJ Faulkner, B Gallo… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Warming increases the metabolic demand of consumers, strengthening their feeding
interactions. This could alter energy fluxes,–and even amplify extinction rates within the food …

A size‐constrained feeding‐niche model distinguishes predation patterns between aquatic and terrestrial food webs

J Li, M Luo, S Wang, B Gauzens, MR Hirt… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the formation of feeding links provides insights into processes underlying
food webs. Generally, predators feed on prey within a certain body‐size range, but a …

Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use

HC Ho, J Brodersen, MM Gossner, CH Graham… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
While aquatic (blue) and terrestrial (green) food webs are parts of the same landscape, it
remains unclear whether they respond similarly to shared environmental gradients. We use …

Distinct stages of the intestinal bacterial community of Ampullaceana balthica after salinization

C Kivistik, K Käiro, H Tammert, IM Sokolova… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Environmental disturbances influence bacterial community structure and functioning. To
investigate the effect of environmental disturbance caused by changes in salinity on host …

Declining glacier cover threatens the biodiversity of alpine river diatom assemblages

SC Fell, JL Carrivick, MG Kelly, L Füreder… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change poses a considerable threat to the biodiversity of high altitude ecosystems
worldwide, including cold‐water river systems that are responding rapidly to a shrinking …

Effects of Species of Leaves and Conditioning Time on Vernal Colonization by Temperate Lotic Isopods (Lirceus sp.)

RE Heller, AN Stouffer, EV Iyengar - Hydrobiology, 2024 - mdpi.com
While some streams have dense populations of aquatic detritivorous isopods, research on
the colonization of leaf packs typically focuses on aquatic insects. To determine whether …

Long‐term exposure to higher temperature increases the thermal sensitivity of grazer metabolism and movement

CS Cloyed, AI Dell, T Hayes, RL Kordas… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological studies of global warming impacts have many constraints. Organisms are often
exposed to higher temperatures for short periods of time, probably underestimating their …

Temperature affects both the Grinnellian and Eltonian dimensions of ecological niches–A tale of two Arctic wolf spiders

B Eitzinger, T Roslin, EJ Vesterinen, SI Robinson… - Basic and Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
To better understand the consequences of global warming for species and their distribution,
we need studies quantifying how environmental change affects communities and interaction …

Thermal regime drives a latitudinal gradient in morphology and life history in a livebearing fish

R Riesch, RA Martin, SE Diamond… - Biological Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Within-species diversity is often driven by changing selective regimes along environmental
gradients. Here, we provide a direct test of the environmental factors underlying phenotypic …