Roswitha B. Ehnes

TL;DR: The results suggest that warming has complex and potentially profound effects on predator–prey interactions and food-web stability, and suggests an increase in perturbation stability of populations.

TL;DR: Environmental warming generally increases the direct short-term per capita interaction strengths between predators and their prey as described by functional-response models, which implies that warming of natural ecosystems may dampen predator–prey oscillations thus stabilizing their dynamics.

TL;DR: Interestingly, complex scaling models accounting for phylogenetic groups were able to remove curvatures except for a negative curvature at the highest temperatures indicating metabolic down regulation, which might indicate that the tremendous differences in invertebrate body architectures, ecology and physiology may cause severely different metabolic scaling processes.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, contrary to predictions of metabolic models, this suggests that for any prey species, the per link and total energy fluxes to its largest predators are smaller than those to predators of intermediate body size.

TL;DR: After accounting for heterogeneity resulting from large scale differences among sampling locations and land-use types, soil properties still explain significant proportions of variation in fungal and soil fauna abundance or diversity, but soil biota was also related to processes that act at larger spatial scales and bacteria or soil yeasts only showed weak relationships to soil properties.