Almost all organisms on Earth exhibit ontogenetic niche shifts, which causes great phenotypic variation among individuals and is thus considered to critically mediate …
Community ecology is traditionally species-based and assumes that species comprise identical individuals. However, intraspecific variation is ubiquitous in nature because of …
Body size exerts a critical influence on predator–prey interactions and is therefore crucial for understanding the structure and dynamics of food webs. Currently, predator–prey mass ratio …
A major question in ecology is how often competing species evolve to reduce competitive interactions and facilitate coexistence. One untested route for a reduction in competitive …
AM de Roos - Ecological research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Even though individual life history is the focus of much ecological research, its importance for the dynamics and structure of ecological communities is unclear, or is it a topic of much …
Specialist species are more vulnerable to environmental change than generalist species. For species with ontogenetic niche shifts, specialization may occur at a particular life stage …
Ecological interactions determine the structure and dynamics of communities and their responses to the environment. Understanding the community-level effects of ecological …
Organisms typically change their diets ontogenetically. Recent studies have shown that an ontogenetic diet shift undermines the resilience of stage‐structured food webs. Here, we …
T Nakazawa - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The Levins model is a classical but still widely used metapopulation model that describes temporal changes in the regional abundance of a species by extinction and colonization of …