Temperature and consumer type dependencies of energy flows in natural communities

• Published in: Oikos Vol. 126; no. 12; pp. 1717 - 1725
• Main Authors: Lang, Birgit, Ehnes, Roswitha B., Brose, Ulrich, Rall, Björn C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Nordic Society Oikos 01.12.2017; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: animals; Carnivores; Carnivorous animals; cell respiration; Climate change; data collection; Detritivores; Ecology; Ecosystem assessment; Ecosystems; Ekologi; Energy consumption; energy flow; Feeding; Feeding rates; Food webs; Herbivores; population size; Respiration; Scaling; Simulation; Stability; temperature; Temperature dependence; Temperature effects; Zoologi; Zoology

With the world continuously warming, a mechanistic understanding of how temperature affects interaction strengths, which are fundamental to food-web stability, is needed. As interaction strengths are determined by the flows of energy from resources to consumers, we investigated effects of temperatur...