Warming and Resource Availability Shift Food Web Structure and Metabolism

Experimental warming of a marine food web suggests that ocean warming can lead to greater consumer abundance but reduced overall biomass, providing a potentially species-independent response to environmental warming.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2009-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000178PMID 19707271PMCID 2723928
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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