Conventional Agriculture Seasonally Rewires Stream Food Webs Making Them Top Heavy

We show that agricultural land-use change seasonally rewired trophic interactions through reduced terrestrial energy use and trophic position. Additionally, agricultural land-use change drove steeper biomass size spectrum slopes and shifted fish communities to high abundances of small individuals. Collectively, our results suggest agricultural land-use change may be homogenizing stream food webs towards productive, single-energy channel dominated webs with faster turnover rates. To see paper, click here.