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Willem Bonnaffé1,2, Alain Danet3,4, Camille Leclerc5,6

  • 1Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Ecology Letters
|August 3, 2024
PubMed
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Climate warming and nutrient enrichment simplify freshwater food webs. Contrary to theory, warming shortens food chains, an effect amplified by enrichment, threatening aquatic ecosystems.

Keywords:
biochemical oxygen demandconnectancefishlakemaximum trophic levelstreamtrophic interaction

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