Realizing the potential of trait-based aquatic ecology: New tools and collaborative approaches

Contribution of ammonia oxidation to chemoautotrophy in Antarctic coastal waters

(2016) Bradley B Tolar et al.   ISME Journal

www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences

(2015) Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

(2015) Franziska Schrodt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environment and evolutionary history determine the global biogeography of phytoplankton temperature traits

(2015) Mridul K. Thomas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global biogeochemical impacts of phytoplankton: a trait-based perspective

(2015) Elena Litchman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Influence of predator-prey evolutionary history, chemical alarm-cues, and feeding selection on induction of toxin production in a marine dinoflagellate

(2015) Christina D. Senft-Batoh et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Light and growth in marine phytoplankton: allometric, taxonomic, and environmental variation

(2015) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

ConStrains identifies microbial strains in metagenomic datasets

(2015) Chengwei Luo et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Metatranscriptome analyses indicate resource partitioning between diatoms in the field

(2015) Harriet Alexander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective

(2015) J. B. H. Martiny et al.   SCIENCE

Phenotypic heterogeneity in metabolic traits among single cells of a rare bacterial species in its natural environment quantified with a combination of flow cell sorting and NanoSIMS

(2015) Matthias Zimmermann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Determining the Advantages, Costs, and Trade-Offs of a Novel Sodium Channel Mutation in the Copepod Acartia hudsonica to Paralytic Shellfish Toxins (PST)

(2015) Michael Finiguerra et al.   PLoS One

Natural History's Place in Science and Society

(2014) Joshua J. Tewksbury et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A compendium of cell and natural unit biovolumes for >1200 freshwater phytoplankton species

(2014) Colin T. Kremer et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking Diatom Sensitivity to Herbicides to Phylogeny: A Step Forward for Biomonitoring?

(2014) Floriane Larras et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Creating and maintaining high-performing collaborative research teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills

(2014) Kendra S Cheruvelil et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Fundamental shift in vitamin B12 eco-physiology of a model alga demonstrated by experimental evolution

(2014) Katherine E Helliwell et al.   ISME Journal

Ecogenomic sensor reveals controls on N2-fixing microorganisms in the North Pacific Ocean

(2014) Julie C Robidart et al.   ISME Journal

Relationships between protein-encoding gene abundance and corresponding process are commonly assumed yet rarely observed

(2014) Jennifer D Rocca et al.   ISME Journal

Trait- and size-based descriptions of trophic links in freshwater food webs: current status and perspectives

(2014) David S. Boukal   JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

A trait based perspective on the biogeography of common and abundant marine bacterioplankton clades

(2014) Mark V. Brown et al.   Marine Genomics

Resolving the roles of body size and species identity in driving functional diversity

(2014) V. H. W. Rudolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multispecies diel transcriptional oscillations in open ocean heterotrophic bacterial assemblages

(2014) E. A. Ottesen et al.   SCIENCE

Automated image-based tracking and its application in ecology

(2014) Anthony I. Dell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Between-individual differences in behavioural plasticity within populations: causes and consequences

(2013) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Functional traits explain phytoplankton responses to environmental gradients across lakes of the United States

(2013) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY

Body masses, functional responses and predator-prey stability

(2013) Gregor Kalinkat et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental evidence that evolutionary relatedness does not affect the ecological mechanisms of coexistence in freshwater green algae

(2013) Anita Narwani et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Continuous automated imaging-in-flow cytometry for detection and early warning of Karenia brevis blooms in the Gulf of Mexico

(2013) Lisa Campbell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Predator-prey dynamics and the plasticity of predator body size

(2013) John P. DeLong et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Seasonal variation in the metratranscriptomes of a Thaumarchaeota population from SE USA coastal waters

(2013) James T Hollibaugh et al.   ISME Journal

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii thermal tolerance enhancement mediated by a mutualistic interaction with vitamin B12-producing bacteria

(2013) Bo Xie et al.   ISME Journal

Foraging and vulnerability traits modify predator-prey body mass allometry: freshwater macroinvertebrates as a case study

(2013) Jan Klecka et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Predator effects on a detritus-based food web are primarily mediated by non-trophic interactions

(2013) Nabil Majdi et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Functional group richness: implications of biodiversity for light use and lipid yield in microalgae

(2013) Maria Stockenreiter et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities

(2013) Elena Litchman et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Environmental selection and resource allocation determine spatial patterns in picophytoplankton cell size

(2013) James R. Clark et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Population structure determines functional differences among species and ecosystem processes

(2013) Volker H. W. Rudolf et al.   Nature Communications

Functional traits explain phytoplankton community structure and seasonal dynamics in a marine ecosystem

(2012) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community analysis of high- and low-nucleic acid-containing bacteria in NW Mediterranean coastal waters using 16S rDNA pyrosequencing

(2012) Maria Vila-Costa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

QUANTITATIVE GENETIC APPROACHES TO EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT: HOW USEFUL?

(2012) Jeffrey K. Conner   EVOLUTION

Phytoplankton niches, traits and eco-evolutionary responses to global environmental change

(2012) E Litchman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Predator size interacts with habitat structure to determine the allometric scaling of the functional response

(2012) Benjamin J. Toscano et al.   OIKOS

Performance, Personality, and Energetics: Correlation, Causation, and Mechanism

(2012) Vincent Careau et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

A Global Pattern of Thermal Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton

(2012) M. K. Thomas et al.   SCIENCE

Ecoinformatics: supporting ecology as a data-intensive science

(2012) William K. Michener et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Trait-Based Representation of Biological Nitrification: Model Development, Testing, and Predicted Community Composition

(2012) Nicholas J. Bouskill et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Global Biodiversity of Aquatic Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea is Partitioned by Habitat

(2012) Steven J. Biller et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Decrease in the Autotrophic-to-Heterotrophic Biomass Ratio of Picoplankton in Oligotrophic Marine Waters Due to Bottle Enclosure

(2011) Alejandra Calvo-Díaz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quantitative PCR Enumeration of Total/Toxic Planktothrix rubescens and Total Cyanobacteria in Preserved DNA Isolated from Lake Sediments

(2011) Olga Savichtcheva et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A trait-based framework for predicting when and where microbial adaptation to climate change will affect ecosystem functioning

(2011) Matthew D. Wallenstein et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Applying stable isotopes to examine food-web structure: an overview of analytical tools

(2011) Craig A. Layman et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science

(2011) Vishwas Chavan et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Functional analysis and classification of phytoplankton based on data from an automated flow cytometer

(2011) Anthony Malkassian et al.   CYTOMETRY PART A

Evidence for a three-way trade-off between nitrogen and phosphorus competitive abilities and cell size in phytoplankton

(2011) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY

The community effects of phenotypic and genetic variation within a predator population

(2011) Sebastian J. Schreiber et al.   ECOLOGY

An Automated Platform for Phytoplankton Ecology and Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring

(2011) Francesco Pomati et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF PHYTOPLANKTON TRAITS1

(2011) Jorn Bruggeman   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Toward molecular trait-based ecology through integration of biogeochemical, geographical and metagenomic data

(2011) J. Raes et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Data archiving is a good investment

(2011) Heather A. Piwowar et al.   NATURE

Challenges and Opportunities of Open Data in Ecology

(2011) O. J. Reichman et al.   SCIENCE

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

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

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Modeling Food Webs: Exploring Unexplained Structure Using Latent Traits

(2010) Rudolf Philippe Rohr et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Personality in captivity reflects personality in the wild

(2010) Katherine A. Herborn et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Use of Flow Cytometry to Measure Biogeochemical Rates and Processes in the Ocean

(2010) Michael W. Lomas et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Specialization of trophic position and habitat use by sticklebacks in an adaptive radiation

(2010) Blake Matthews et al.   ECOLOGY

A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

(2010) Colleen T. Webb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Activity, abundance and diversity of nitrifying archaea and bacteria in the central California Current

(2010) Alyson E. Santoro et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fish Traits: A Database of Ecological and Life-history Traits of Freshwater Fishes of the United States

(2010) Emmanual A. Frimpong et al.   FISHERIES

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

(2010) Ulrich Brose   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predicting marine phytoplankton maximum growth rates from temperature: Improving on the Eppley curve using quantile regression

(2010) Jan E. Bissinger et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecosystem-specific selection pressures revealed through comparative population genomics

(2010) M. L. Coleman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An intercomparison of bio-optical techniques for detecting dominant phytoplankton size class from satellite remote sensing

(2010) Robert J.W. Brewin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best practices

(2010) Michael C. Whitlock   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Accelerate Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

(2009) Stephen R. Carpenter et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A trait-based approach for downscaling complexity in plankton ecosystem models

(2009) Agostino Merico et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Characterising functional trait diversity and trait-environment relationships in fish assemblages of boreal lakes

(2009) TIBOR ERŐS et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

A morphological classification capturing functional variation in phytoplankton

(2009) CARLA KRUK et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli

(2009) Jeffrey E. Barrick et al.   NATURE

PhyloPars: estimation of missing parameter values using phylogeny

(2009) Jorn Bruggeman et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: interactions between the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play

(2009) D. M. Post et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton

(2008) Elena Litchman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Use of flow cytometric methods for single-cell analysis in environmental microbiology

(2008) Kamila Czechowska et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The shape of an ecological trade-off varies with environment

(2008) Christine M. Jessup et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes

(2008) Craig E Williamson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

Remote sensing of phytoplankton functional types

(2008) Anitha Nair et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Effects of Predator Hunting Mode on Grassland Ecosystem Function

(2008) Oswald J. Schmitz   SCIENCE

Predicting ecological consequences of marine top predator declines

(2008) Michael R. Heithaus et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION