Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks

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Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01623-6

Causal links between plankton taxa were inferred using long-term data from ten Swiss lakes, revealing the effect of warming and nutrient levels on entire ecological networks. The resulting model suggests that warming generally reduces the number of network interactions and alters which taxa control the food webs.
Source: Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks