The Atlantic Forest harbors 7% of global biodiversity and possesses high levels of endemism, but many of its component taxa remain unstudied. Due to the importance of …
The movement of trophic resources between and among ecosystems, referred to as cross‐ ecosystem subsidies, is a common phenomenon. In the marine environment, both adjacent …
SP Yanoviak, DN Frederick - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Upon falling onto the water surface, most terrestrial arthropods helplessly struggle and are quickly eaten by aquatic predators. Exceptions to this outcome mostly occur among riparian …
Assessments of trophic diversity are critical for evaluating ecological integrity of habitats, but interpretations of such assessments require an understanding of variation across natural …
This book presents a 360-degree picture of the world of insects and explores how their existence affects our lives: the" good, bad, and ugly" aspects of their interactions with …
NCS Silva, AJL Costa, J Louvise, BE Soares… - Acta …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Resource partitioning is important for species coexistence. Species with similar ecomorphology are potential competitors, especially when phylogenetically close, due to …
HKS Barros, TAP Barbosa… - Journal of Fish Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The present study aimed to characterize the diet of Moenkhausia collettii and investigate possible changes due to environmental variations and its body size in streams in the eastern …
Environmental variation affects the availability of spatial and trophic resources in Amazonian streams and may be important factors structuring the diet of fishes. We analyzed the diet …
NA Griffiths, WR Hill - Ecosystems, 2014 - Springer
Animal excretion can be a significant nutrient flux within ecosystems, where it supports primary production and facilitates microbial decomposition of organic matter. The effects of …