Impacts of rainfall extremes predicted by climate‐change models on major trophic groups in the leaf litter arthropod community

Arthropods in the leaf litter layer of forest soils influence ecosystem processes such as decomposition. Climate‐change models predict both increases and decreases in average rainfall. Increased drought may have greater impacts on the litter arthropod community. In addition to affecting survival or behaviour of desiccation‐sensitive species, lower rainfall may indirectly lower abundances of consumers that graze drought‐stressed fungi, with...