Maintaining a balance between growth needs and available food resources is critical to the
development of any organism. Ecological stoichiometry provides a theoretical basis for …

Nutrients can shape ecological interactions but remain poorly integrated into ecological
networks. Concepts such as nutrient‐specific foraging nevertheless have the potential to …

Facultative parasites can alternate between a free-living and a parasitic existence to
complete their life cycle. Yet, it remains uncertain which lifestyle they prefer. The optimal …

Many primary consumers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial systems are ectotherms (eg
zooplankton and insects), whose metabolisms, and therefore nutritional demands, are …

Food webs, networks of feeding interactions within ecological systems, have presented a
consistent challenge to generations of researchers. Nonetheless, some recent approaches …

The dynamics of consumers can be affected by both nutrient-deficient food (low phosphorus
(P) to carbon ratio (C)) and nutrient-excessive (high P: C) food, which is known as the …