Delineating reef fish trophic guilds with global gut content data synthesis and phylogeny

Trophic innovations fuel reef fish diversification

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The evolution of traits and functions in herbivorous coral reef fishes through space and time

(2019) Alexandre C. Siqueira et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dietary partitioning promotes the coexistence of planktivorous species on coral reefs

(2019) Matthieu Leray et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Reconstructing hyperdiverse food webs: gut content metabarcoding as a tool to disentangle trophic interactions on coral reefs

(2019) J. M. Casey et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Herbivorous fish rise as a destructive fishing practice falls in an Indonesian marine national park

(2019) Sonia Bejarano et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity

(2019) Simon J Brandl et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The marine fish food web is globally connected

(2019) Camille Albouy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Unifying functional trait approaches to understand the assemblage of ecological communities: synthesizing taxonomic divides

(2019) Katherine C. B. Weiss et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Towards an ecological trait‐data standard

(2019) Florian D. Schneider et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Machine learning algorithms to infer trait‐matching and predict species interactions in ecological networks

(2019) Maximilian Pichler et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global drivers of reef fish growth

(2018) Renato A. Morais et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Habitat selection and aggression as determinants of fine-scale partitioning of coral reef zones in a guild of territorial damselfishes

(2018) JG Eurich et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Habitat selection and aggression as determinants of fine-scale partitioning of coral reef zones in a guild of territorial damselfishes

(2018) JG Eurich et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Ecosystem restructuring along the Great Barrier Reef following mass coral bleaching

(2018) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

(2018) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   NATURE

Scale dependence of environmental controls on the functional diversity of coral reef fish communities

(2017) Lauren A. Yeager et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Species traits as drivers of food web structure

(2017) Idaline Laigle et al.   OIKOS

Improving understanding of the functional diversity of fisheries by exploring the influence of global catch reconstruction

(2017) Kirsty L. Nash et al.   Scientific Reports

Ecological Network Inference From Long-Term Presence-Absence Data

(2017) Elizabeth L. Sander et al.   Scientific Reports

Predicting the diet of coastal fishes at a continental scale based on taxonomy and body size

(2016) German A. Soler et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Contributions of body size, habitat and taxonomy to predictions of temperate Australian fish diets

(2016) GA Soler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Microtopographic refuges shape consumer-producer dynamics by mediating consumer functional diversity

(2016) Simon J. Brandl et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Chasing Ecological Interactions

(2016) Pedro Jordano   PLOS BIOLOGY

Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages

(2016) Simon J. Brandl et al.   Ecosphere

Contributions of body size, habitat and taxonomy to predictions of temperate Australian fish diets

(2016) GA Soler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

(2016) Joshua S. Madin et al.   Scientific Data

Improved community detection in weighted bipartite networks

(2016) Stephen J. Beckett   Royal Society Open Science

Predicting microbial traits with phylogenies

(2015) Marta Goberna et al.   ISME Journal

Exploring the evolutionary signature of food webs' backbones using functional traits

(2015) Giulio V. Dalla Riva et al.   OIKOS

Toward a trophic theory of species diversity

(2015) John W. Terborgh   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inferring biotic interactions from proxies

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

A proposed unified terminology of species traits in stream ecology

(2015) Dénes Schmera et al.   Freshwater Science

A proposed unified terminology of species traits in stream ecology

(2015) Dénes Schmera et al.   Freshwater Science

A hierarchical classification of trophic guilds for North American birds and mammals

(2015) Constantino González-Salazar et al.   Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

High vulnerability of ecosystem function and services to diversity loss in Caribbean coral reefs

(2014) Fiorenza Micheli et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Global mismatch between species richness and vulnerability of reef fish assemblages

(2014) Valeriano Parravicini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

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

Can a trait-based multi-taxa approach improve our assessment of forest management impact on biodiversity?

(2013) Isabelle Aubin et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

(2013) Timothée Poisot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Individual-based analyses reveal limited functional overlap in a coral reef fish community

(2013) Simon J. Brandl et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Functional diversity: a tool for answering challenging ecological questions

(2013) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

(2013) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic eigenvector maps: a framework to model and predict species traits

(2013) Guillaume Guénard et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Inferring food web structure from predator-prey body size relationships

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

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ecological traits and environmental affinity explain Red Sea fish introduction into the Mediterranean

(2012) Jonathan Belmaker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

rfishbase: exploring, manipulating and visualizing FishBase data from R

(2012) C. Boettiger et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

(2012) Ross M. Thompson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

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

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY

Extinction vulnerability of coral reef fishes

(2011) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research

(2009) Julia Reiss et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A working guide to boosted regression trees

(2008) J. Elith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Functional diversity responses to changing species richness in reef fish communities

(2008) BS Halpern et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Niche Partitioning Increases Resource Exploitation by Diverse Communities

(2008) Deborah L. Finke et al.   SCIENCE

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE