Although DNA metabarcoding is an attractive approach for monitoring biodiversity, it is often
difficult to detect all the species present in a bulk sample. In particular, sequence recovery …

Sponges play an important ecological function in many benthic habitats. They filter large
volumes of water, retain suspended particles with high efficiency, and process dissolved …

Higher diversity and dominance at lower latitudes has been suggested for colonial species.
We verified this pattern in species richness of ascidians, finding that higher colonial-to …

Body size is not an independent variable, but an emergent property: the result of a number
of inter-linked eco-physiological processes, like most other quantities that we can measure …

Metabolic rates vary among individuals according to food availability and phenotype, most
notably body size. Disentangling size from other factors (eg, age, reproductive status) can be …

Clonal behavior has been hypothesized to provide an escape from allometric metabolic
scaling that limits the maximum mass achieved by a single individual. Here, we demonstrate …

Metabolic activation can have a profound impact, for instance, by more than compensating
for the lower resting metabolic rates of large organisms compared to smaller ones. In some …

The traditional focus of physiological and functional genomic research is on molecular
processes that play out within a single body. In contrast, when social interactions occur …

Severe tropical storms represent major disturbances shaping the structure and function of
multiple ecosystems (Gardner et al. 2005; Fabricius et al. 2008). Their major destructive …