The authors thank T. Benevides, C. S. Casa-Nova, J. L. S. Ferro, S. Jacques, M. M. Moreira, A. P. F. Pires, V. Scofield and P. Trasmonte for help with the experiment. We are also very thankful to Gustavo Q. Romero for providing the labelled 15N leaf litter used in this study and also to Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Rolf Vinebrooke and another anonymous reviewer for the insightful comments and suggestions that improved this manuscript. This study was performed with the support of CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – Brasil (process number 200265/2014-8 to N.A.C. M. and 476926/2012-2 to V. F. Farjalla), and FAPERJ (Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, process number E-26/103316/2011 to V. F. Farjalla). This study was conducted under the research permit number 38247-1 (ICMBio/MMA). We thank UBC Biodiversity Research Centre for hosting N. A. C. Marino and V. F. Farjalla as visiting scholars during the development of this manuscript.
Laboratório de Limnologia, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, PO Box 68020, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (LINCGlobal), Brazil
Recommended Citation:
Marino N.A.C.,Srivastava D.S.,MacDonald A.A.M.,et al. Rainfall and hydrological stability alter the impact of top predators on food web structure and function[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(2)