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Rich, that's great that 15 works so well, I am just waiting on my XP-1 arriving, and I have the CV15 (and an adaptor on order).
The camera was supposed to be here yesterday but the carrier didn't turn up and is trying again this morning, fingers crossed!
Edit: Camera + 35mm lens arrived, battery charging. Have updated the firmware as had enough charge in it.
Looks very nice indeed.
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Really nice pictures you all !!! it's always a pleasure to come back and see the new pics posted !
Last posting for a spell...got no reaction/response to last set...probably due to deja vue all over again...so I'll back off for a while and enjoy the work of others.
Here's a set from this AM's walk-around: 60/2.4 jpegs. Used the Velvia mode...like South Beach with the color. Tried the 90 Summicron R with Pro X adapter...like focusing through the bottom of a beer bottle.
Nice image compliments to Ashwin, Carl, Lee, Rich...waiting to see Jim Radcliffe's first Pro X output.
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Hope Jim doesn't mind, but here are some pics and throughts of his of the XPro-1 from his site:
Fuji X-Pro1 Photography by Jim Radcliffe
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So far I am amazed by the output of the X-Pro1 and the two lenses I own. The camera is fun to use and the icing on the cake is the amazing output. I love it and can't wait to pick up the 60mm to complete my set of lenses.
The X-Pro1 may be the only camera I take with me during my upcoming trip to California.. there is a part of me that says take the K5 and a couple of lenses but I may just leave everything at home and concentrate on using the X-Pro1.
I can honestly say that I have never owned a camera that has produced such amazing photos. That includes my M8 and my 5D and 5D MKII. I think the X-Pro1 beats them both on numerous levels and numerous ways.
The AF is slow but then 99% of what I shoot does not require super fast AF capabilities.
I am going to buy an M adapter and a Minolta adapter.. maybe even a K-Mount adpater.. I have so much glass and am truly thankful the X-Pro1 will be able to mount all of it... what a versatile camera it is.
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Sorry to anyone who may have judged the images or my commentary about gear in that context as insensitive in anyway. My thought was to bring light to the images and their local impact.
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Jim, You will love the 60. It's a bit slow to focus, particularly in Macro mode, but is entirely useable and produced fantastic output. I have an M mount, K mount, and R mount adapter, and find manually focussing to be acceptable, more challenging the slower the glass one has...
I have tried a few captures with the 80 R summilux and 77FA and 31 FA lenses. Output is magical...
Hey Jim,
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with when you get a chance to shoot some more.
The AUTO dynamic range feature in the XP1 really works well. It correctly picked 400 (ISO 800) for this rhody blossom that was partly in full sun and the rest in shade. Processed from raw in RPP where I also pulled up the shadows a little and held back the highlight a bit more using the compressed exposure and black point settings.
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Many beautiful images in this thread! I like
Agreed, lovely bright images to be seen here
Ashwin, do you have the FA77 to try with your K mount adapter?
Here is a 1:1 crop......looks like it could stand alone actually.
So my question is.....how is it possible to have so little noise in these files (no noise reduction was applied)? I thought originally that there was some in-camera voodoo going on in the JPEG engine to suppress it, but it would show up in RAW.
I got rid of a Canon 7D because of noise at base ISO.....my GH2 has quite a bit too. So what's the deal?
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Brother Ashwin, Sean Reid, and this thread forced me to pick one of these up today. I'll add to the "Fun..." when I figure out which button to push.
Cheers, Matt
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All done in RPP, the first two with the ZM18/4 (no corner nonsense at all)....and the last two with the 35.
The Hawaiian version of the brick wall shot
Ya gotta LOVE this sensor.....(BTW.....self-portrait )
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Rich - good job on the self portrait!
Rich, can't wait to get the L adaptor for my XP-1 now!
Lovely shots and processing.
I am completely lost with RPP, need to read the manual. I just pray that Aperture supports XP-1 soon, as that is my workflow normally.
Spent the day going through the manual and playing generally, because the weather has broken down totally, driving rain, plus I am at the tail end of really bad bout of man flu.
Looking forward to seeing more inspirational shots from you all.
David Anderson
XP1 with Konica AR 85mm f/1.8. Raw conversion in RPP using APX25 film emulation and subsequent split toning in LR4.
Original camera jpeg
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Great shots everyone. A couple from me today with the 18mm, processed in RPP (with some sharpening added in LR). 1st one was using the K64 film simulation, the 2nd one using the RPP Velvia simulation, which is probably a little over the top!
To be honest, I am not really sure whether I prefer the OOC JPEGs or something like RPP. It will be interesting once LR supports the RAWs for another option. I have a feeling that, compared to RPP output, the JPEGs can look a little 'JPEGGY' at times but maybe I am looking too closely.
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This one was P160NC simulation in RPP. At first I didn't think I'd be able to get anywhere close to the Auto-DR JPEG rendering but with sone fiddling with the shadows sliders etc in LR it wasn't so hard.
The longer I spend peeping the pixels the more I am convinced that the default settings for OOC JPEGs give nice sharp straight lines but detail in bushes etc tend to go a bit mushy.
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I guess I can test this using the same scene at DR100 and then Auto DR or DR400 and compare the RAW and jpeg images from each setting.
Like the X100, the RAWs are effectively 'under exposed' by 1 stop for DR200 and 2 stops for DR400.
So, many of my auto-dr shots are very dark when opened in RPP. The same is true of X100 RAWs opened in LR - LR does not try to compensate, whilst Aperture and Silkypix do.
I am hopeful that when LR supports X-Pro 1 that it may also try to automatically compensate for the auto-dr.
The alternative is to shoot at DR100 and shoot like we always used to, preserving highlights by getting the exposure right and raising shadows in post. However, the auto-dr facility is just soooo convenient.
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Nice pics, Carl and Lee. Greens are very strong in the Velvia mode pics, aren't they?
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The Accordian Player....XPro-1, color OOC JPEG's converted in LR4....35 Fujinon @ f/2ish
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It may not be the classic "Zeiss pop".....but I'll take it.
It's interesting......no sharpening in RPP or in LR4, but it certainly looks like sharpening was applied. Is it the lens?
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Today, was my first time out with my XPro-1. I shot this morning with only RAW output. Now, I'll have to figure out SilkyPix to see those.
Photos below were jpegs taken this evening.
XPro-1; 60mm f/2.4; 1/90s @ f/8; ISO 1600
XPro-1; 60mm f/2.4; 1/180s @ f/2.4; ISO 200
XPro-1; 60mm f/2.4; 1/180s @ f/2.4; ISO 200
XPro-1; 60mm f/2.4; 1/220s @ f/3.6; ISO 200
XPro-1; 60mm f/2.4; 1/90s @ f/11; ISO 360
XPro-1; 60mm f/2.4; 1/90s @ f/8; ISO 200
XPro-1; 60mm f/2.4; 1/90s @ f/8; ISO 200
Cheers, Matt
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Nice shooting everyone.
Lots of excellent photos since I last posted.
XP1 autofocus could not keep up with ballerinas at rehearsal, but did fine in low light "no action" shots.
Here are a few.
35 f/1/4 iso 1600
35 f/1/4 iso 1600
35 f/2.5 iso 3200
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I often zone focus for street shooting, but I wanted to see if autofocus worked here.
Surprisingly, the camera did autofocus on the subject about half the time, it just took too long so there was no way to capture the moment.
Your suggestion will more likely capture the moment, but I will have to improve my manual focus skills for it to work.
Joe Marquez
Joe, they are great. Nice captures, brilliant color.
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The current distribution of climatic conditions will be rearranged on the globe. To survive, species will have to keep pace with climates as they move. Mountains are among the most affected regions owing to both climate and land-use change. Here, we explore the effects of climate change in the vertebrate food web of the Pyrenees. We investigate elevation range expansions between two time-periods illustrative of warming conditions, to assess: (i) the taxonomic composition of range expanders; (ii) changes in food web properties such as the distribution of links per species and community size-structure; and (iii) what are the specific traits of range expanders that set them apart from the other species in the community—in particular, body mass, diet generalism, vulnerability and trophic position within the food web. We found an upward expansion of species at all elevations, which was not even for all taxonomic groups and trophic positions. At low and intermediate elevations, predator : prey mass ratios were significantly reduced. Expanders were larger, had fewer predators and were, in general, more specialists. Our study shows that elevation range expansions as climate warms have important and predictable impacts on the structure and size distribution of food webs across space.
1. Introduction
Climate change is expected to be the major threat to biodiversity and one of the main factors affecting human health and well-being in the coming decades [1]. The current distribution of climatic conditions will be rearranged across the globe over the present century [2]. Living organisms must adapt to novel and rapidly changing conditions, and so species must keep pace with climates to survive. Because of differences among species in tracking optimal environmental conditions, climate change will probably have profound effects on community organization and dynamics, as well as on ecosystem functioning [3,4].
Mountain ecosystems occur on all continents, in all latitudinal zones and within the entire world's main biome types. They support a large portion of the world's biological diversity [5,6], and are among the most affected and threatened as a result of climate change and population movements [7,8]. Mountain species with narrow habitat tolerances and/or low dispersal ability are at high risk in the face of climate change [9].
Recent climate change [10] has already impacted biological systems worldwide [11–13] and has led to significant shifts in the distribution, phenology and behaviour of species [11,14,15]. In parallel to latitudinal movements, species inhabiting mountain regions are expected to move upwards to higher, cooler elevations as temperatures rise. Upward movement of alpine plants has already been documented [16], with changes in community composition at high elevations [17]. A median shift of 11.0 m uphill per decade for several plant and animal species has been detected [15,18].
Different temporal and/or spatial responses of different taxonomic groups can lead to mismatches between interacting species. Spatial mismatches will take place when interacting species shift their ranges at different speeds [3,4,15,19–24]. Broken and novel interactions resulting from spatial mismatches will probably alter species abundances, distributions and extinction probabilities of species under climate change. However, the question of how climate change will modify community structure and dynamics is still far from being solved [3,4]. A major challenge is to predict which species will more likely expand their ranges, whether range expanders have particular traits and the consequences of differential range expansions on the structure and dynamics of the food web within which these species are embedded. Because of its fundamental relation to animal metabolism and its role on community organization and food web structure [25–28], body size can be one of these traits [29]. Other traits that might explain the success of expanding species are linked to their position within the food web [30].
In this paper, we explore the effects of climate change in the highly diverse vertebrate food web of the southeastern Pyrenees mountain range. By characterizing the occurrence of elevation range expansions of vertebrate species between two time periods that illustrate climate change, we investigate: (i) the changes in food web properties such as the distribution of links per species, community size-structure and the distribution of predator : prey body mass ratios; (ii) the taxonomic composition of range expanders; and (iii) some characteristics of expanders: body mass, diet breath, vulnerability and trophic position. We do this using data compiled from the literature on habitats, distributions and trophic interactions among species in the Pyrenees.
2. Material and methods
We have constructed food webs among vertebrate species combining a unique dataset of species distributions over the southeastern side of the Pyrenees mountain range with observations of their feeding links. The dataset comprises annual presence/absence information of vertebrate species on a geo-spatially located grid, including information on elevation and habitat types observed in each cell of the grid.
The study area includes the southeastern slopes of the Pyrenees (Iberian Peninsula side), from the highest creeks in the centre of the mountain range to the Mediterranean Sea in the east, covering a region of 900 000 ha with elevations between 255 and 3140 m.a.s.l. A climatic dataset was obtained by modelling climatic surfaces from discrete climatic data from the Spanish weather-monitoring system [31–33]. Climatic variables included temperature (°C), precipitation (mm) and the annual and summer precipitation to potential evapotranspiration (PPET) ratio [34]. For the purposes of this paper, annual data were aggregated for the elevation ranges considered (see below and electronic supplementary material, S1).
Food webs were constructed from existing databases and extensive bibliography search (see electronic supplementary material, S1 for detailed information about the food web construction). Spatial co-occurrence of species, and hence realized trophic links, were dependent upon three factors: (i) presence in the same grid cell, (ii) elevation and (iii) habitat coincidence. If a pair of species coincided in these criteria and the literature reported a trophic relationship among them, then a link was added to the food web between them. The whole elevation range was divided into three equally distributed elevations: low (from 255 to 1217 m), intermediate (from 1218 to 2179 m) and high elevation (from 2180 to 3140 m). One network for each elevation for each year over the period considered was constructed, resulting in a total of 54 food webs (18 for each elevation). The complete database comprised 253 species (13 mammal carnivores, 40 other mammals, 33 birds of prey, 133 other birds, 10 amphibians, 21 reptiles and three fish species). Temporal variability was studied by comparing two periods, referenced as pre (P1) and post (P2). P1 includes years between 1984 and 1990, both inclusive, and P2 comprises the period between 1991 and 2001 (see the electronic supplementary material, S4 for an example of built food webs).
We examined the cumulative standardized degree distribution of the networks P(k > K), which describes the fraction of species with a number of links k greater than K, for the P1 and P2 periods at each elevation [35]. Two different cumulative distributions were considered, that of the interactions of species with their predators (standardized outdegree), and the one representing their interactions with their prey or diet breadth (standardized indegree). Two other food web properties were analysed: the standard deviation of generalism (GenSD) and the standard deviation of vulnerability (VulSD).
We compared body mass distribution of newly arrived species over P2 at each elevation range with the body mass distribution of native species at that elevation to assess whether the species expanding their range upwards were larger than the natives. Analyses were carried out for all species together, by taxa (e.g. separating birds and mammals), by separating predator from prey species and by lumping species within trophic levels.
We also calculated the predator–prey mass ratios (PPMR) for all the links present in each web. This value, for each link, was calculated as the base-10 logarithm of the fraction between the body mass of the predator and the body mass of the prey. This allowed for the description of the distribution of these values in each web, and the statistical comparison of these distributions between the P1 and P2 periods.
Statistical analyses included generalized (GLM), mixed and general linear (LM) models, and Student and Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests. All analyses were carried out using R [36,37].
3. Results
(a) Climate
Mean annual temperature increased during the whole period in the three elevation ranges. On average, mean temperature during P1 was significantly lower than during P2 at low and intermediate elevations (see the electronic supplementary material, figure S6), whereas at high elevations, these differences were not significant, although showing the same tendency (table 1). On the other hand, neither annual PPET nor summer PPET showed significant differences between P1 and P2 in any of the elevations (see the electronic supplementary material, figure S6).
(b) Changes in food web properties
(i) Species richness
Low and intermediate elevations showed similar and significantly higher number of species than high elevations (LM, p < 2.2 × 10−16). At the three elevation ranges, species richness was significantly higher in P2 than in P1 (table 1 and figure 1a–c). The number of new species (i.e. those present in P2 but not present in P1) was fairly constant across the entire elevation range (table 2). However, at high elevations, they represented a much larger proportion of the natives (χ2 = 17.056, d.f. = 2, p = 0.000019). Concerning the taxonomical composition of new species, most of them were birds, and within birds, most corresponded to basal species in the food web. It should be noticed, though, that most top predators have large home ranges and are habitat generalists, and thus they were already present at all elevations in P1.
Most new species at each elevation came from lower elevations, indicating elevation range expansions (table 3). However, 23 per cent of the new species at low elevations seemed to have moved downwards, going from higher to lower elevations. Thus, 77 per cent and 64 per cent of new species at low and intermediate elevations, respectively, came from the surrounding areas, which, in the Pyrenees, correspond to lower elevations. This percentage was much lower at high elevations, where only 8 per cent of species had moved from the surrounding lowland regions, whereas 92 per cent of the new species were already present at lower elevations within the Pyrenees, either low or intermediate, before 1990.
(ii) Diet generalism
Globally, the GenSD was significantly lower at high than at low and intermediate elevations (LM, p < 0.0001). GenSD significantly increased at high elevations from P1 to P2 (figure 1f), whereas differences between these two periods at the low and intermediate elevation ranges were not significant (table 1 and figure 1d–e).
The distribution of the number of prey consumed by each predator (i.e. the standardized indegree distribution) during P1 and P2 was similar at all elevations (figure 2a–c). There was a common increase in specialist species, relative to the ones already present. There were slight differences between high elevations and the others, with steeper slopes in the former. However, in all cases, differences of the distributions between P1 and P2 were significant (Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, low elevation: D = 0.37, p < 0.0001; intermediate elevations: D = 0.38, p < 0.0001; high elevation: D = 0.28, p = 0.0009). This, united to the patterns of change observed above for GenSD, indicates that incoming consumer species at the high elevation range were more generalists—i.e. had broader diet breadths—than native consumers.
(iii) Vulnerability
The VulSD was significantly lower at high than at low and intermediate elevations (LM, p < 0.0001). VulSD did not change between P1 and P2 (figure 1g–i). This suggests that within an elevation range, predation pressure was equally distributed among prey species in the food web, and this did not change with changing climatic conditions and/or the arrival of new species.
Marked differences occurred, however, when comparing the number of predators attacking new and native prey between P1 and P2 (figure 2d–f). At all elevations, new prey species were exposed to fewer predators than their native counterparts (D = 0.30, p < 0.0001; D = 0.35, p < 0.0001; and D = 0.38, p < 0.0001, at low, intermediate and high elevations, respectively), as shown by steeper standardized outdegree distribution slopes for P2.
(c) Size-structure: predator–prey mass ratios
We compared the distribution of PPMR in the native food web (P1) with the distribution of mass ratios only considering newcomers at P2 and their interaction with natives. At the three elevations, PPMRs at P1 were significantly higher, although only marginal at high elevations (p < 0.0001 at low and intermediate elevations, and p = 0.06 at high elevation) than at P2, indicating either an increase of big prey and/or a decrease of big predators from P1 to P2 (figure 3a–c).
The same result was obtained when only basal species and their predators were considered, with significant differences at high elevations as well (p < 0.0001, p < 0.001 and p = 0.047 at low, intermediate and high elevations, respectively). The analysis of the body mass of new species (see the electronic supplementary material, table S3) revealed that incoming basal species were generally larger, and thus the differences in PPMRs were likely due to an increase of big prey instead of a decrease of predator sizes.
(d) Expanders versus non-expanders: species traits
(i) Habitat generalism
Contrary to previous observations and expectations [38], expanders at intermediate and high elevations were not more habitat generalists than the natives at that elevation. A significant example is provided by incoming bird species at high elevations: they were more habitat specialists than native birds, occupying about half of the suitable habitats, regardless of their trophic level (see the electronic supplementary material, table S4).
(ii) Trophic relations
The mean standardized outdegree values of expanders were significantly lower than those of non-expanders, indicating that expanding species had few predators (both at the native and at the new elevation; table 1). On the other hand, we found no significant differences of the mean standardized indegree values between expanders and non-expanders for the whole period (table 1).
(iii) Body mass of expanders
New prey species were significantly larger than natives at low and intermediate elevations (p = 0.04 and p = 0.02, respectively; figure 3d–e), whereas incoming prey at high elevations were not significantly larger than the natives (figure 3f). Observed differences at low and intermediate elevations were mostly due to range expanding birds, whereas differences in body mass between newcomers and natives were not observed for mammals and carnivores (see the electronic supplementary material, table S4). On the other hand, new predators at any elevation range were not larger than native predators, and hence predator body mass was not a good predictor of elevation range expansion in our data.
4. Discussion
We show that mountain ecosystems are experiencing important changes in species composition, food web structure and community size distributions. Novel communities resulting from climate change are characterized by a higher proportion of larger basal prey species. We observed an upward expansion of species across the whole elevation range, with most expanders representing birds from low trophic positions. At low and intermediate elevations, new basal species were larger than native species, promoting significant changes in PPMR. At the highest elevations, new species were not larger than the natives, were more habitat specialists and, among the expanders, were the ones with more similar diet breadths than the natives. At all elevations, expanders experienced an important enemy release and were attacked by fewer predators than natives.
Species richness increase paralleled that of mean temperature, but different changes across elevations are manifested by other network metrics. At low and intermediate elevations, neither GenSD nor VulSD increased with temperature, and both temperature and GenSD increased at high elevation, with new incoming species having broader diets than the natives. This increase in species richness supports the idea that, despite climate change being expected to reduce the number of species globally, species richness can increase locally [39,40]. At least at our temporal resolution, extinctions have not occurred, supporting findings that state that the mechanisms that cause climate-induced extinctions are not instantaneous [11,41–45].
There is increasing evidence that different taxonomic groups show different elevation responses to changing climatic conditions [20,46]. Most expanders were prey species down in the food web, mostly birds. This contrasts with other studies [15] showing that birds responded least in terms of elevation shifts than other taxonomic groups. Most basal species in our food webs reproduce annually, have a diet is based on insects and/or plants, and share most predators. But birds might be more mobile than small mammals [47], and their responses to warming include the establishment of introduced species outside their endemic climatic ranges [38,48,49].
Expanders are species visiting new environments, and may survive if they find a suitable habitat, they find enough resources and/or predation pressure is not too strong. Expanders did not have wider diet breadths than non-expanders, but they were larger and were attacked by fewer predators. The first pattern disagrees with studies stating that more generalist consumers are good candidates to firstly move upwards [24,46,50]. Actually, specialists are considered particularly vulnerable to extinction as a result of environmental change [50–53]. The lack of inequality found can be a consequence of living in an extreme and extremely fluctuating habitat, with species forcedly adapted to a relatively highly diverse diet. More diet breath can be a good predictor only for certain taxonomic groups [30].
Concerning the effects of predators, expanders had significantly fewer predators than non-expanders (mean values of 2.2 versus 3.9, respectively). This agrees with the enemy-release hypothesis. A species with few predators expanding its range is likely to find new environments with no or fewer predators, and so the establishment in this new habitat has more probabilities of success.
The analyses of standardized indegree and outdegree distributions support these results and provide an additional dimension. Our results show that consumers with relatively wide but lower diet breaths than native species and, more importantly, with a lower predation pressure, are the best suited to expand their ranges. Expanders were also more habitat specialists. As for diet breath, the explanation might rely on environmental conditions. Some species that live at the highest elevations have adaptations to cope with different environmental conditions in winter and summer. For instance, many of them make seasonal elevation migrations, and so they must be habitat generalists to some extent to survive in a completely different environment. Incoming species should not need to have these pre-adaptations to extremely changing environments, and so they do not need to be such habitat generalists. An alternative or complementary explanation is based on the fact that specialists are more efficient in exploiting resources than generalists. So, a relatively more specialist—but still quite generalist—species could be favoured in new environments.
Basal expanders had significantly larger body sizes than non-expanders. While warming generally reduces body size within local communities [50,54,55], it is not clear whether large body-sized species tend to shift or expand their ranges more easily than smaller ones [24]. It is worth noting that species at higher trophic positions were homogeneously distributed across elevations; so range expansions in these groups would not occur.
The decrease of PPMR at low and intermediate elevations was due to larger prey species moving upwards. This might have important dynamic consequences. PPMR are proxies of interaction strengths, mostly in aquatic food webs [56], ultimately determining food web dynamics. If smaller body mass ratios imply weaker interaction strengths, we should expect mountain ecosystems to be less top-down controlled in the near future. The reported mechanism behind loss of top-down control in our study differs from those reported elsewhere in this issue [57].
The complexity of the food web analyses presented here, expanding many years to detect evidence in natural systems of climate change effects, requires an alternative way of building the food web (see [58] for a similar approach). Because interactions cannot be directly assessed in such food webs due to the impracticability of determining the diet of all species at each altitude each year, all feeding interactions come from aggregating individual species' diets, and do not change over time unless the two interacting partners do not co-occur in a given habitat at a given elevation in a given year. Our approach, for example, does not allow for dietary shifts of expanders into their new environments. However, our database includes all found interactions at different environments and elevations; so it covers a wide range of species. Hence, it is unlikely, but possible, that a new potential interaction between a range consumer and a native resource is not already contemplated in our database.
5. Conclusions
The Pyrenees are showing some responses to climate change that could be representative of what is happening in other mountain ecosystems worldwide, i.e. the appearance of communities with novel species combinations. These novel communities are characterized by a higher proportion of larger basal prey species, mostly birds. The evidence that most incoming species come from lower elevations clearly indicates that, in the long term, if climate change continues at a similar rate, the vertebrate community at the highest elevations will become more similar to that at lower elevations. If range contractions occur at low elevations [58], and inhabiting species at the highest elevations are forced to move upwards, species extinctions in mountain environments are likely to occur in the intermediate–long term. Our study suggests that the level of climate warming that has already taken place in the Pyrenees is sufficient to have also generated changes in its size-structure and food web properties, which could have profound impacts on community dynamics, biodiversity maintenance and ecosystem functioning. Alpine communities are likely to keep changing in the next decades or centuries, probably exacerbating the patterns of change reported here.
M.L. was contracted in the project Consolider-Ingenio Montes (CSD2008-00040) to construct and analyse the networks, and he is currently supported by Microsoft Research. J.M.M. is supported by a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (RYC-892 2008-03664, Ministry of Economy CGL2010-20091 and Generalitat de Catalunya 2009SGR142). The participation of J.M.M. at the SIZEMIC Workshop (Hamburg) was supported by the German Research Foundation (JA 1726/3-1) and by the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP (EXC177) (Univ. Hamburg), funded through the DFG. The authors thank all the students, but specially Irene Figueroa and Núria Galiana, who helped in the construction of the database.
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Land below Mountains
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An Angle of Curved Surfaces
I'm praying
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when turbulence hit.
The old lady beside me
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jz 12:26 30 Aug 2004
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MPEG 1 is good for films.
MPEG 2 is good for TV (it reverts to something similar to MPEG 1 for films).
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MPEG 4 is good for high compression applications such as sending things down the internet and tends to give better picture quality for high compression (ie low bit rate).


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The Dominican Republic will be represented by eleven members of its National Team at the X Pan American Surfing Games, to be held in Guadeloupe, the French Island of the Caribbean, November 12 – 20, 2011. This international event is organized by the Pan American Surfing Association (PASA), the Continental governing body of the sport of surfing, uniting the Americas through surf.
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