Fig. 1: Temperature-induced trophic cascade. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Fig. 1: Temperature-induced trophic cascade.

From: Warming indirectly simplifies food webs through effects on apex predators

Fig. 1

a,b, There was a reduction in the biomass of invertebrates over the course of the experiment (n = 60 biologically independent samples) (a) and a corresponding increase in the total biomass of diatoms (n = 56 biologically independent samples), but only in the presence of fish in the warm streams (b). Bars are mean ± standard error; for statistical comparisons between treatments, see Table 2; for a visualization of biomasses in each treatment before and after the experimental manipulation, see Supplementary Fig. 5.

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