#Extreme rainfall events cause top-heavy aquatic food webs
“#Extreme rainfall events cause top-heavy aquatic food webs” Scientists used the insect larvae that live in the water trapped by bromeliad plants as a model ecosystem, discovering that food webs become top-heavy with predators when there are large day-to-day variations in rainfall. Credit: The Bromeliad Working Group/UBC. An expansive, multi-site ecology study led by UBC…