Functional ecology of fish: current approaches and future challenges

S Villéger, S Brosse, M Mouchet, D Mouillot, MJ Vanni - Aquatic Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Fish communities face increasing anthropogenic pressures in freshwater and marine
ecosystems that modify their biodiversity and threaten the services they supply to human …

Consumer‐driven nutrient dynamics in freshwater ecosystems: From individuals to ecosystems

CL Atkinson, KA Capps, AT Rugenski… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The role of animals in modulating nutrient cycling [hereafter, consumer‐driven nutrient
dynamics (CND)] has been accepted as an important influence on both community structure …

Resource diversity promotes among‐individual diet variation, but not genomic diversity, in lake stickleback

DI Bolnick, KM Ballare - Ecology letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many generalist species consist of specialised individuals that use different resources. This
within‐population niche variation can stabilise population and community dynamics …

From elements to function: toward unifying ecological stoichiometry and trait-based ecology

CL Meunier, M Boersma, R El-Sabaawi… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The theories developed in ecological stoichiometry (ES) are fundamentally based on traits.
Traits directly linked to cell/body stoichiometry, such as nutrient uptake and storage, as well …

Impact of nitrogen deposition on forest and lake food webs in nitrogen‐limited environments

CL Meunier, MJ Gundale, IS Sánchez… - Global Change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Increased reactive nitrogen (Nr) deposition has raised the amount of N available to
organisms and has greatly altered the transfer of energy through food webs, with major …

Widespread intraspecific organismal stoichiometry among populations of the Trinidadian guppy

RW El‐Sabaawi, E Zandona, TJ Kohler… - Functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological stoichiometry expresses ecological interactions as the balance between multiple
elements. It relates the ecological function of organisms to their elemental composition, or …

Cryptic eco‐evolutionary dynamics

MT Kinnison, NG Hairston Jr… - Annals of the New York …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Natural systems harbor complex interactions that are fundamental parts of ecology and
evolution. These interactions challenge our inclinations and training to seek the simplest …

Testing the ecological consequences of evolutionary change using elements

PD Jeyasingh, RD Cothran, M Tobler - Ecology and Evolution, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the ecological consequences of evolutionary change is a central challenge
in contemporary biology. We propose a framework based on the~ 25 elements represented …

Regulation of fatty acid composition related to ontogenetic changes and niche differentiation of a common aquatic consumer

F Chaguaceda, P Eklöv, K Scharnweber - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Fatty acids (FAs) are key nutrients for fitness which take part in multiple physiological
processes over the ontogeny of organisms. Yet, we lack evidence on how FA nutrition …

Stoichiometric stability of aquatic organisms increases with trophic level under warming and eutrophication

M Feng, H Cheng, P Zhang, K Wang, T Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The balance of stoichiometric traits of organisms is crucial for nutrient cycling and energy
flow in ecosystems. However, the impacts of different drivers on stoichiometric (carbon, C; …