Competition, predation and species responses to environmental change
Competition, predation and species responses to environmental change
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DOI：
10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13056.x
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发表时间：
2004-08
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Lin Jiang;A. Kulczycki
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作者：
Lin Jiang;A. Kulczycki
Despite much effort over the past decade on the ecological consequences of global warming, ecologists still have little understanding of the importance of interspecific interactions in species responses to environmental change. Models predict that predation should mitigate species responses to environmental change, and that interspecific competition should aggravate species responses to environmental change. To test this prediction, we studied how predation and competition affected the responses of two ciliates, Colpidium striatum and Paramecium tetraurelia, to temperature change in laboratory microcosms. We found that neither predation nor competition altered the responses of Colpidium striatum to temperature change, and that competition but not predation altered the responses of Paramecium tetraurelia to temperature change. Asymmetric interactions and temperature-dependent interactions may have contributed to the disparity between model predictions and experimental results. Our results suggest that models ignoring inherent complexities in ecological communities may be inadequate in forecasting species responses to environmental change.
