Hypothesis 2: Temperature
The community was expected to change towards dominance of smaller
organisms with increasing temperature. This hypothesis was supported by
the shifts in the community. The negative link between temperature and
community position along A2 axis of PCoA implied on average lower
complexity of organisms with warming (Fig. 8b). Looking only at groups,
the relative proportion of cladocerans was particularly responsive to
mean temperature (Fig. 8d).