Almost all organisms on Earth exhibit ontogenetic niche shifts, which causes great
phenotypic variation among individuals and is thus considered to critically mediate …

Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have a wide range of applications in
marine geoscience, and are increasingly being used in the scientific, military, commercial …

Predator–prey interactions in natural ecosystems generate complex food webs that have a
simple universal body-size architecture where predators are systematically larger than their …

Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

Community ecology is traditionally species-based and assumes that species comprise
identical individuals. However, intraspecific variation is ubiquitous in nature because of …

Body size governs predator-prey interactions, which in turn structure populations,
communities, and food webs. Understanding predator-prey size relationships is valuable …

Natural ecological communities are diverse, complex, and often surprisingly stable, but the
mechanisms underlying their stability remain a theoretical enigma. Interactions such as …

Here, we investigate patterns in the size structure of one marine and six freshwater food
webs: that is, how the trophic structure of such ecological networks is governed by the body …

We examine the potential of trait-based parameters of taxa for linking above-and below-
ground ecological networks (hereafter 'green'and 'brown'worlds) to understand and predict …

Biotic interactions in aquatic communities are dominated by predation, and the distribution of
trophic link strengths in aquatic food webs crucially impacts their dynamics and stability …