Ecogeographical rules and the macroecology of food webs

The more-individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity-diversity relationship

(2018) David Storch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The island rule: An assessment of biases and research trends

(2018) Sophie Lokatis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

No general relationship between mass and temperature in endothermic species

(2018) Kristina Riemer et al.   eLife

Bringing Elton and Grinnell together: a quantitative framework to represent the biogeography of ecological interaction networks

(2018) Dominique Gravel et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A mechanistic theory for aquatic food chain length

(2017) Colette L. Ward et al.   Nature Communications

Predicting the consequences of species loss using size-structured biodiversity approaches

(2016) Ulrich Brose et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Extensions of Island Biogeography Theory predict the scaling of functional trait composition with habitat area and isolation

(2016) Claire Jacquet et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking species functional roles to their network roles

(2016) Camille Coux et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental drivers of voltinism and body size in insect assemblages across Europe

(2016) Dirk Zeuss et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Anthropogenic effects are associated with a lower persistence of marine food webs

(2016) Luis J. Gilarranz et al.   Nature Communications

The roles and impacts of human hunter-gatherers in North Pacific marine food webs

(2016) Jennifer A. Dunne et al.   Scientific Reports

Synthetic datasets and community tools for the rapid testing of ecological hypotheses

(2015) Timothée Poisot et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Colonisation rate and adaptive foraging control the emergence of trophic cascades

(2015) Ashkaan K. Fahimipour et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variation in ecological interaction strength with island area: theory and data from the Bahamian archipelago

(2015) Thomas W. Schoener et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Community assembly on isolated islands: macroecology meets evolution

(2015) A. J. Rominger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Knowledge of predator-prey interactions improves predictions of immigration and extinction in island biogeography

(2015) Alyssa R. Cirtwill et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

(2015) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Latitudinal gradients in biotic niche breadth vary across ecosystem types

(2015) Alyssa R. Cirtwill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predicting the stability of large structured food webs

(2015) Stefano Allesina et al.   Nature Communications

Effects of spatial scale of sampling on food web structure

(2015) Spencer A. Wood et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Macrophyte biomass predicts food chain length in shallow lakes

(2015) Jacob P. Ziegler et al.   Ecosphere

Multispecies interactions across trophic levels at macroscales: retrospective and future directions

(2014) W. Daniel Kissling et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Global biotic interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets

(2014) Jorrit H. Poelen et al.   Ecological Informatics

Effects of trophic similarity on community composition

(2014) Hélène Morlon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

(2014) Yuval Itescu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beyond species: why ecological interaction networks vary through space and time

(2014) Timothée Poisot et al.   OIKOS

Collapse of an ecological network in Ancient Egypt

(2014) Justin D. Yeakel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Highly resolved early Eocene food webs show development of modern trophic structure after the end-Cretaceous extinction

(2014) J. A. Dunne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Relative Importance of Predation Risk and Water Temperature in Maintaining Bergmann’s Rule in a Marine Ectotherm

(2013) Anna Manyak-Davis et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Cold-Water Connection: Bergmann’s Rule in North American Freshwater Fishes

(2013) Andrew L. Rypel   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Why are there so many species in the tropics?

(2013) James H. Brown   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inferring food web structure from predator-prey body size relationships

(2013) Dominique Gravel et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

(2012) Mary Susanne Wisz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Environmental determinants of food-chain length: a meta-analysis

(2012) Gaku Takimoto et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex food-web dynamics in Lake Constance

(2012) Alice Boit et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The latitudinal gradient in dispersal constraints: ecological specialisation drives diversification in tropical birds

(2012) Claire L. Salisbury et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The dissimilarity of species interaction networks

(2012) Timothée Poisot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths

(2012) Samraat Pawar et al.   NATURE

Emergence of Structural Patterns in Neutral Trophic Networks

(2012) Elsa Canard et al.   PLoS One

Stranded on an island: consequences of forest fragmentation for body size variations in an arboreal mammal, the edible dormouse (Glis glis)

(2012) Joanna Fietz et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Food web expansion and contraction in response to changing environmental conditions

(2012) Tyler D. Tunney et al.   Nature Communications

Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena

(2011) Michael A. Huston et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Trophic theory of island biogeography

(2011) Dominique Gravel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Understanding global patterns in amphibian geographic range size: does Rapoport rule?

(2011) Felix J. S. Whitton et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Geographic variation in network structure of a nearctic aquatic food web

(2011) Benjamin Baiser et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER - Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R

(2011) Andrew L. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Of mice and mammoths: evaluations of causal explanations for body size evolution in insular mammals

(2011) Mark V. Lomolino et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rescuing ecosystems from extinction cascades through compensatory perturbations

(2011) Sagar Sahasrabudhe et al.   Nature Communications

Modeling Food Webs: Exploring Unexplained Structure Using Latent Traits

(2010) Rudolf Philippe Rohr et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Predators, prey, and transient states in the assembly of spatially structured communities

(2010) Andrew M. Hein et al.   ECOLOGY

Stronger predation in the tropics shapes species richness patterns in marine communities

(2010) Amy L. Freestone et al.   ECOLOGY

Structural dynamics and robustness of food webs

(2010) Phillip P. A. Staniczenko et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Body-mass constraints on foraging behaviour determine population and food-web dynamics

(2010) Ulrich Brose   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Geographic and temporal correlations of mammalian size reconsidered: a resource rule

(2010) Brian K. McNab   OECOLOGIA

The Role of Discharge Variation in Scaling of Drainage Area and Food Chain Length in Rivers

(2010) J. L. Sabo et al.   SCIENCE

Major dimensions in food-web structure properties

(2009) Jan E. Vermaat et al.   ECOLOGY

Rapid evolution of great kiskadees on Bermuda: an assessment of the ability of the island rule to predict the direction of contemporary evolution in exotic vertebrates

(2009) Blake A. Mathys et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Adaptive Radiation: Contrasting Theory with Data

(2009) S. Gavrilets et al.   SCIENCE

NETWORK ANALYSIS REVEALS CONTRASTING EFFECTS OF INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION ON INDIVIDUAL VS. POPULATION DIETS

(2008) Márcio S. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY

ESTIMATING NONLINEAR INTERACTION STRENGTHS: AN OBSERVATION-BASED METHOD FOR SPECIES-RICH FOOD WEBS

(2008) Mark Novak et al.   ECOLOGY

PREDATOR AND PREY BODY SIZES IN MARINE FOOD WEBS

(2008) C. Barnes et al.   ECOLOGY

Food-web assembly during a classic biogeographic study: species’ "trophic breadth" corresponds to colonization order

(2008) Denise A. Piechnik et al.   OIKOS

Size, foraging, and food web structure

(2008) O. L. Petchey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs

(2008) E. L. Berlow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Latitudinal gradients in niche breadth: empirical evidence from haematophagous ectoparasites

(2007) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis

(2007) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY