Landuse Change in Savannas Disproportionately Reduces Functional Diversity of Invertebrate Predators at the Highest Trophic Levels: Spiders as an Example
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DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0194-0
Abstract: Abstract Predators play a disproportionately positive role in ensuring integrity of food webs, influencing ecological processes and services upon which humans rely. Predators tend to be amongst the first species to be affected by anthropogenic… read more here.
Keywords: landuse change; food webs; diversity; functional diversity ... See more keywords
Warming and temperature variability determine the performance of two invertebrate predators
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63679-0
Abstract: In a warming ocean, temperature variability imposes intensified peak stress, but offers periods of stress release. While field observations on organismic responses to heatwaves are emerging, experimental evidence is rare and almost lacking for shorter-scale… read more here.
Keywords: temperature; variability; invertebrate predators; stress ... See more keywords