Ecosystem

Climate change

Top-down and bottom-up design

Business

Biology

Food web

Software engineering

Ecology

Computer science

Environmental science

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Climate change ecology has focused on climate effects on trophic interactions through the lenses of temperature effects on organismal physiology and phenological asynchronies. Trophic interactions are also affected by the nutrient content of resources, but this topic has received less attention. Using concepts from nutritional ecology, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding how climate affects food webs through top-down and bottom-up processes impacted by co-occurring environmental drivers.

Climate Change, Nutrition, and Bottom-Up and Top-Down Food Web Processes