Ecophylogenetics can be viewed as an emerging fusion of ecology, biogeography and
macroevolution. This new and fast‐growing field is promoting the incorporation of evolution …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 690–701 Abstract At present, the disciplines of evolutionary
biology and ecosystem science are weakly integrated. As a result, we have a poor …

A central problem in ecology is determining the processes that shape the complex networks
known as food webs formed by species and their feeding relationships. The topology of …

A rich body of empirically grounded theory has developed about food webs—the networks of
feeding relationships among species within habitats. However, detailed food-web data and …

Evidence is accumulating that many marine ectotherms are undergoing rapid changes in
their life‐history characteristics. These changes have been variously attributed to fisheries …

Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than
50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hotly debated. One difficulty is …

Food webs of habitats as diverse as lakes or desert valleys are known to exhibit common
“food-web patterns”, but the detailed mechanisms generating these structures have …

Explaining the structure of ecosystems is one of the great challenges of ecology. Simple
models for food web structure aim at disentangling the complexity of ecological interaction …

Ecological communities emerge as a consequence of gradual evolution, speciation, and
immigration. In this study, we explore how these processes and the structure of the evolved …

Understanding the processes underlying food-web structure and organization remains one
of the major tasks of ecology. While first attempts were mostly based on niche theory, with …