ArticleNature ecology & evolution2023
Warming indirectly simplifies food webs through effects on apex predators.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Trophic Cascade Effects of Marine Mesozooplankton: Theory, Dynamics, and Responses to Global Change.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Relative Effects of Eutrophication and Warming on Freshwater Ecosystems Across Ecological Levels.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Trophic Interactions Are Key to Understanding the Effects of Global Change on the Distribution and Functional Role of the Brown Bear.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Warming degrades nutritional quality of periphyton in stream ecosystems: evidence from a mesocosm experiment.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Realised Thermal Niches in Marine Ectotherms Are Shaped by Ontogeny and Trophic Interactions.Ecology letters · 2024Article
- Protorhabditis nematodes and pathogen-antagonistic bacteria interactively promote plant health.Microbiome · 2024Article
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Abstract
Warming alters ecosystems through direct physiological effects on organisms and indirect effects via biotic interactions, but their relative impacts in the wild are unknown due to the difficulty in warming natural environments. Here we bridge this gap by embedding manipulative field experiments within a natural stream temperature gradient to test whether warming and apex fish predators have interactive effects on freshwater ecosystems. Fish exerted cascading effects on algal production and microbial decomposition via both green and brown pathways in the food web, but only under warming. Neither temperature nor the presence of fish altered food web structure alone, but connectance and mean trophic level declined as consumer species were lost when both drivers acted together. A mechanistic model indicates that this temperature-induced trophic cascade is determined primarily by altered interactions, which cautions against extrapolating the impacts of warming from reductionist approaches that do not consider the wider food web.
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