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Environmental Warming Alters Food-Web Structure and Ecosystem letters to nature attention to those events which give a variance reduction greater 15. Jeanloz, R. & Wenk, H.-R. Convection and anisotropy of the inner core. Geophys. Res. Lett. 15, 72±75 than 70%. Most core-sensitive modes are also sensitive to mantle (1988). 16. Karato, S. Inner core anisotropy due to magnetic ®eld-induced preferred orientation of iron. Science structure. Some events yield signi®cantly different rotation angles 262, 1708±1711 (1993). for different mantle corrections29,30. We regard this as an indication 17. Yoshida, S., Sumita, I. & Kumazagawa, M. Growth model of the inner core coupled with the outer core of serious noise contamination, and discard these events for a dynamics and the resulting elastic anisotropy. J. Geophys. Res. 101, 28085±28103 (1997). 18. Bergman, M. I. Measurements of elastic anisotropy due to solidi®cation texturing and the implica- particular mode. 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Perhaps complexity near the ray turning points or systematic Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to G.L. changes in earthquake location procedures could allow smaller (e-mail: [email protected]). rotation rates to be compatible with the body-wave data. We believe that a model analysis is the best way to determine inner-core rotation. First, we are dealing with large-scale vibrations ................................................................. which are insensitive to errors in event locations and to local structure in the inner core. Second, the method is independent of Environmental warming alters the earthquake source mechanism. Third, we do not need to worry about how much of the splitting functions we observe are caused by food-web structure heterogeneity or anisotropyÐall we care about is whether they change with time. Our results are marginally consistent with the and ecosystem function small rotation rates reported in most recent body-wave analyses, though our best value indicates that the inner core is not rotating Owen L. Petchey, P. Timon McPhearson, Timothy M. Casey at a signi®cant rate relative to the mantle. This would be in accord & Peter J. Morin with the notion that the inner core is gravitationally locked to the mantle10. M Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, 14 College Farm Road, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8511, USA Received 11 May; accepted 6 August 1999. .............................................................................................................................................. 1. Song, X. & Richards, P. G. Seismological evidence for differential rotation of the Earth's inner core. Nature 382, 221±224 (1996). We know little about how ecosystems of different complexity will 2. Su, W., Dziewonski, A. 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Possible heterogeneity of the earth's core deduced from PKIKP greatly complicate inferences based on single functional groups. travel times. Nature 305, 204±206 (1983). We used microcosms containing aquatic microbes to investigate NATURE | VOL 402 | 4 NOVEMBER 1999 | www.nature.com © 1999 Macmillan Magazines Ltd 69 letters to nature Low A Predators Low B Actinosphaerium (3) Herbivores Bacterivores Herbivores Bacterivores Hypostome sp. P. bursaria (2) Euplotes (5) Colpidium Producers Producers Chlamydomonas Diatom sp. A Bacterial assemblage (Chlorella) Bacterial assemblage Diatom sp. B Predators High A High B Actinosphaerium Predators Stentor B (3) Stentor B (5) Spirostomum (4) Herbivores Bacterivores Herbivores Bacterivores Hypostome sp. (5) P. bursaria (3) Euplotes (5) Paramecium Frontonia A (2) Halteria (5) Frontonia B (5) Colpidium Stentor A Monostyla Stentor A (4) Rotaria (5) Producers Chlamydomonas (4) Producers Scenedesmus Desmid sp.
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