Species traits as drivers of food web structure

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

(2016) Marco Moretti et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The meaning of functional trait composition of food webs for ecosystem functioning

(2016) Dominique Gravel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multitrophic functional diversity predicts ecosystem functioning in experimental assemblages of estuarine consumers

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Functional dissimilarity across trophic levels as a driver of soil processes in a Mediterranean decomposer system exposed to two moisture levels

(2015) Mathieu Coulis et al.   OIKOS

Trait-based and phylogenetic associations between parasites and their hosts: a case study with small mammals and fleas in the Palearctic

(2015) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   OIKOS

Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices

(2015) V. Gagic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inferring biotic interactions from proxies

(2015) Ignacio Morales-Castilla et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Functional group diversity increases with modularity in complex food webs

(2015) D. Montoya et al.   Nature Communications

Current use of and future needs for soil invertebrate functional traits in community ecology

(2014) Benjamin Pey et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predicting ecosystem functions from biodiversity and mutualistic networks: an extension of trait-based concepts to plant-animal interactions

(2014) Matthias Schleuning et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Functional relationships beyond species richness patterns: trait matching in plant-bird mutualisms across scales

(2014) D. Matthias Dehling et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Let's go beyond taxonomy in diet description: testing a trait-based approach to prey-predator relationships

(2014) Jérôme Spitz et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Into darkness: unravelling the structure of soil food webs

(2014) Ulrich Brose et al.   OIKOS

Unravelling the complex structure of forest soil food webs: higher omnivory and more trophic levels

(2014) Christoph Digel et al.   OIKOS

Trophic complementarity drives the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in food webs

(2013) Timothée Poisot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The dimensionality of ecological networks

(2013) Anna Eklöf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Herbivory differentially alters litter dynamics of two functionally contrasted grasses

(2013) Sébastien Ibanez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

From projected species distribution to food-web structure under climate change

(2013) Camille Albouy et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

When does diversity matter? Species functional diversity and ecosystem functioning across habitats and seasons in a field experiment

(2013) André Frainer et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

(2013) F. T. de Vries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives

(2012) Nicolas Mouquet et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Potential drivers of spatial structure of leaf-litter food webs in south-western European beech forests

(2012) Nereida Melguizo-Ruiz et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Testing the effect-response framework: key response and effect traits determining above-ground biomass of salt marshes

(2011) Vanessa Minden et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Body sizes, cumulative and allometric degree distributions across natural food webs

(2011) Christoph Digel et al.   OIKOS

Relevance of evolutionary history for food web structure

(2011) A. Eklof et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modeling Food Webs: Exploring Unexplained Structure Using Latent Traits

(2010) Rudolf Philippe Rohr et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Scaling from individuals to networks in food webs

(2010) Daniel B. Stouffer   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying relationships between traits and explicitly measured gradients of stress and disturbance in early successional plant communities

(2010) Grégory Sonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Patterns and mechanisms responsible for the relationship between the diversity of litter macro-invertebrates and leaf degradation

(2009) Mickaël Hedde et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Major dimensions in food-web structure properties

(2009) Jan E. Vermaat et al.   ECOLOGY

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Simple MaxEnt models explain food web degree distributions

(2009) Richard J. Williams   Theoretical Ecology

Combining plant and animal traits to assess community functional responses to disturbance

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   ECOGRAPHY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Review: Ecological networks - beyond food webs

(2008) Thomas C. Ings et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY