Diet effects on ectotherm thermal performance

EA Hardison, EJ Eliason - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The environment is changing rapidly, and considerable research is aimed at understanding
the capacity of organisms to respond. Changes in environmental temperature are …

In Hot Water: Current Thermal Threshold Methods Unlikely to Predict Invasive Species Shifts in NW Atlantic

ER Lancaster, DC Brady… - … and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
As global temperatures continue to rise, accurate predicted species distribution models will
be important for forecasting the movement of range-shifting species. These predictions rely …

[HTML][HTML] The comprehensive effect of natural food quality and quantity on growth rate of herbivore consumers

L Liu, H Zhang, X Liu, Y Li, M Boersma, L Zhou… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The performance of herbivore consumers in freshwater ecosystems is influenced by food
quality and quantity, which are crucial factors in understanding energy flow. However, the …

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; …

[HTML][HTML] Interactive effects of warming and eutrophication on zooplankton could reverse the stoichiometric mismatch with phytoplankton

K Zhu, H Zhang, P Zhang, P Wang, H Li, M Feng… - Water Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The core ecosystem functioning (eg trophic transfer efficiency) is at risk of being disrupted by
the growing mismatch between nutrient content of primary producers and nutrient demand of …

How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality

CL Meunier, M Boersma, SAJ Declerck… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While understanding feeding preferences of herbivores and carnivores is of major
importance in ecology, we still know very little on the sensitivity of different functional groups …

Global change alters coastal plankton food webs by promoting the microbial loop: An inverse modelling and network analysis approach on a mesocosm experiment

J Di Pane, P Bourdaud, S Horn, HD Moreno… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine organisms are currently, and will continue to be, exposed to the simultaneous effects
of multiple environmental changes. Plankton organisms form the base of pelagic marine …

Environmental heterogeneity at two spatial scales affects litter diversity–decomposition relationships

F Ospina‐Bautista, DS Srivastava, E Realpe… - Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of biodiversity on ecological processes have been experimentally evaluated
mainly at the local scale under homogeneous conditions. To scale up experimentally based …

Rich Dynamics of a General Producer–Grazer Interaction Model under Shared Multiple Resource Limitations

T Phan, JJ Elser, Y Kuang - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Organism growth is often determined by multiple resources interdependently. However,
growth models based on the Droop cell quota framework have historically been built using …

Interspecific differences in ecological stoichiometric characteristics of invertebrates and their influencing factors from the Beibu Gulf, China

C Wang, L Huang, B Kang, L Zhu, H Liu… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Invertebrates can store carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and other elements in their
body tissues at theoretically homeostatic rates, thus playing an important role in the …