Given their sheer cumulative biomass and ubiquitous presence, parasites are increasingly
recognized as essential components of most food webs. Beyond their influence as …

Ocean warming has both direct physiological and indirect ecological consequences for
marine organisms. Sessile animals may be particularly vulnerable to anomalous warming …

Some hosts harbor more parasites than others. Overdispersion of parasitism suggests that
coevolution with parasites may be more important to the biology and ecology of certain …

Understanding how species loss impacts ecosystem stability is critical given contemporary
declines in global biodiversity. Despite decades of research on biodiversity–stability …

We explored whether parasites are important in kelp forests by examining their effects on a
high‐quality, high‐resolution kelp‐forest food web. After controlling for generic effects of …

Understanding the drivers of ecosystem stability has been a key focus of modern ecology as
the impacts of the Anthropocene become more prevalent and extreme. Marine protected …

Habitat isolation and disturbance are important regulators of biodiversity, yet it remains
unclear how these environmental features drive differences in parasite diversity between …

Parasites form an integral part of food webs, however, they are often ignored in classic food
web theory or limited to the investigation of trophic transmission pathways. Specifically …

Parasites comprise a significant proportion of species on Earth yet are seldom included or
realistically represented in studies of food web ecology. As ecosystems continue to change …

How strongly predators and prey interact is both notoriously context dependent and difficult
to measure. Yet across taxa, interaction strength is strongly related to predator size, prey …