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Climate change is increasing temperatures globally including aquatic habitats like rivers, directly affecting the biology of many invertebrate species. In freshwater ecosystems, snow melt drives rivers in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Increasing river temperatures can result in increasing metabolism, and thus prey demand for riverine fishes. Climate change may also affect the temporal dynamics of prey availability by effects on aquatic insect development, which is accelerated under warm conditions, creating mismatching in prey demand and prey abundance. Trout may compensate be feeding on terrestrial prey. Energy flux change throughout the summer season in rivers the temporal dynamics of terrestrial invert fluxes to streams and comparing to the proportion of terrestrial inverts in trout diets. EPT (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera) and Non-EPT (Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera ect.) had close measurements, potential conflicts were weather which was not to be expected. Benthic samples showed the opposite of what was expected because there was an increase over time due to diatom growth. The study is still in progress to become more knowledgeable on how energy fluxes can change River Food webs.
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