Figure 1.

Experimental design. (A) Press disturbance with or without the predator. (B) Pulse disturbance with or without the predator. Dilution factors indicate the strength of simulated mortality and resource levels indicate the degree of resource deprivation: For press disturbance 2.5% reduction steps with 20-fold community dilution at each step, and, for pulse disturbance, 25% reduction steps with 1,000-fold community dilution at each step was applied. Vertical dashed lines delimit the three phases and indicate the times of sampling.