Agricultural and Biological Sciences
8 years ago

Predators thrive, prey struggle: Climate change could disrupt ecosystems.

Ecology and Evolution
Mismatch in microbial food webs: predators but not prey perform better in their local biotic and abiotic conditions
Elodie C. Parain, Dominique Gravel, Rudolf P. Rohr, Louis‐Félix Bersier, Sarah M. Gray

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