Indirect effect of environmental factors on interactions between microbial and classical food webs in freshwater ecosystems
While the influence of environmental factors on the abundance of aquatic animals is fairly well documented, less has been done to research their influence on food web interactions. Among a plenty of environmental factors measured, total solids, transparency and temperature were most closely related to the variation in trophic communities. The analyses of food web interactions under low and high levels of those factors revealed that they differently influenced strengths among food web components.