Aquatic ecologists face challenges in identifying the general rules of the functioning of
ecosystems. A common framework, including freshwater, marine, benthic, and pelagic …

Temperature strongly affects phytoplankton growth rates, but its effect on communities and
ecosystem processes is debated. Because phytoplankton are often limited by light …

There is increasing concern that accelerating environmental change attributed to human-
induced warming of the planet may substantially alter the patterns, distribution and intensity …

Marine phytoplankton generate half of global primary production, making them essential to
ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycling. Though phytoplankton are …

Temperature and nutrients are fundamental, highly nonlinear drivers of biological
processes, but we know little about how they interact to influence growth. This has …

Regions with a Mediterranean climate are generally predicted to become warmer and drier
with climate change. Estuaries in these regions are influenced by a broad range of climate …

The renewed interest in trait-based approaches has offered a stimulating, conceptual
framework for predicting species distributions, assessing community composition and …

Trait-based ecology merges evolutionary with classical population and community ecology
and is a rapidly developing branch of ecology. It describes ecosystems as consisting of …

As thermal regimes change worldwide, projections of future population and species
persistence often require estimates of how population growth rates depend on temperature …

Trait-based approaches may give insights into underlying mechanisms of relationships
between biological communities and environmental stressors, and are increasingly used in …