food webinvasive antsnutrient cyclingtrophic cascadeAim Pathways linking grazing and detrital subsystems of terrestrial ecosystems are important for ecosystem processes and function, but remain poorly understood. The invasion of a generalist predator creates a unique opportunity to study the effects of ...
(a 0–20% increase in export production by year 2020). As in the North Pacific, zooplankton grazing of microplastic results in enhanced new production, but because surface ocean temperatures are warmer, the microbial loop and detrital remineralisation rates are also relatively enhanced, which ...
High primary production as well as detrital accumulation may promote bacte- rial production in the metalimnion. In the lower metalimnion of Lake Vech- ten, high bacterial production rates were es- timated in early September (Fig. 4A). Bac- terial production had pronounced maxima in the ...
The stimulation of annual plant net production by grazing is less than 10%, but more important, uprooting of plants by birds can be a crucial factor in determining the timing of inputs to the detrital food web in this system of highly seasonal floods. A comparison of life history ...