Forest loss as a driver of food web change
The first part of our findings suggests that allochthony did not
change over time, so we focussed on TP for our second research
question. We found that the mean pairwise difference in TP(Δ \(\overset{\overline{}}{\text{TP}}\)) was best predicted by the
ratio of forest loss:gain in the immediate upstream area( \(\text{ΔF}_{\text{sub}.\text{ratio}}\)) (Table 2). Further,
slope coefficients describing the relationships betweenΔ \(\overset{\overline{}}{\text{TP}}\) and candidate predictors
were negative for all six forest loss metrics, and positive for
predictors unrelated to forest loss (Fig. 4).