“Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes” – New article in Nature Climate Change

“Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes” – New article in Nature Climate Change

This study was developed in the context of the project WarmingWebs (coordination: Catarina Vinagre), which modeled the food webs of 124 tidepools across four continents, in a collaboration with the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv - Alemanha). Results from this study imply that the expected global warming of 4 °C should increase biodiversity in arctic to temperate regions, however biodiversity in tropical regions should decrease. Simulations using synthetic networks did not yield similar results, which reveals the importance of using natural food webs for predicting community responses to environmental changes.

Links:

Gauzens, B., Rall, B.C., Mendonça, V., Vinagre, C., Brose, U. Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes. Nature Climate Change (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0698-z

Cirtwill, A.R. Some food webs like it hotter. Nature Climate Change (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0706-3