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@article{Woodward:2024,
author = {Woodward, G},
journal = {Communications Biology},
title = {Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment},
year = {2024}
}
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@article{Woodward:2024,
author = {Woodward, G},
journal = {Communications Biology},
title = {Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment},
year = {2024}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - The threat of climate change has renewed interest in the responses of communities and ecosystems to warming, with changes insize spectra expected to signify fundamental shifts in the structure and dynamics of these multispecies systems. Whilesubstantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limitedcoverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. We addressed this gap byconducting an extensive freshwater mesocosm experiment across 36 large field mesocosms exposed to intergenerationalwarming treatments of up to +8 °C above ambient levels. We found a nonlinear decrease in the overall mean body size ofzooplankton with warming, with a 57% reduction at +8 °C. This pattern was broadly consistent over two tested seasons andmajor taxonomic groups. We also detected some breakpoints in the community-level size-temperature relationship, indicatingthat the system’s response shifts noticeably above a certain level of warming. These results underscore the need to captureintergenerational responses to large gradients in warming at appropriate scales in time and space in order to better understandthe effects of warming on natural communities and ecosystems.
AU - Woodward,G
PY - 2024///
SN - 2399-3642
TI - Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment
T2 - Communications Biology
ER -