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Inter-hemispheric comparison of bottom-up effects on community structure: Insights revealed using the comparative-experimental approach
Authors:Bruce A.?Menge  author-information"  >  author-information__contact u-icon-before"  >  mailto:mengeb@bcc.orst.edu"   title="  mengeb@bcc.orst.edu"   itemprop="  email"   data-track="  click"   data-track-action="  Email author"   data-track-label="  "  >Email author,Eric?Sanford,Bryon A.?Daley,Tess L.?Freidenburg,Gregory?Hudson,Jane?Lubchenco
Affiliation:(1) Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 97331-2914, USA;(2) Present address: Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, USA;(3) Section of Ecology and Systematics, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
Abstract:The comparative-experimental approach uses identically designed, replicated experiments at different sites along environmental gradients in order to gain insight into the changing dynamics of communities with changing environmental conditions. Such studies reveal how ecological processes vary in intensity and interact to produce community structure. Early emphases were on the community consequences of shifting top-down impacts, competition and disturbance with environmental stress. Recent advances include the more precise quantification of gradients and thus a better understanding of species responses to the environment, and the revelation that bottom-up forces can vary significantly on within-region scales, with major consequences for the impact of top-down forces and thus community dynamics. Here the use of the method to examine the role of geographic location (coastal ecosystems in different hemispheres) and oceanographic conditions (upwelling vs downwelling) on these bottom-up/top-down linkages is advanced. We show that a bottom-up factor (prey recruitment) and a top-down effect (predation rate) vary consistently with oceanographic conditions within each coastal ecosystem, and also between geographic locations (New Zealand, Oregon). In general, both recruitment and predation rates are higher in Oregon. It is postulated that these differences are common responses to oceanographic variation, and that between-hemisphere differences result from the stronger and more persistent upwelling in the California Current ecosystem.
Keywords:bottom-up  predation  recruitment  top-down  upwelling
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