Prey selection by the common dolphin: Fulfilling high energy requirements with high quality food

J Spitz, E Mourocq, JP Leauté, JC Quéro… - Journal of experimental …, 2010 - Elsevier
Which characteristics define the prey species constituting the diet of a given predator?
Answering this question would help predict a predator's diet and improve our understanding …

Biomass transformation webs provide a unified approach to consumer–resource modelling

WM Getz - Ecology letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 113–124 Abstract An approach to modelling food web biomass
flows among live and dead compartments within and among species is formulated using …

Trophic structuring of modularity alters energy flow through marine food webs

P Eskuche-Keith, SL Hill, P Hollyman… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Food web interactions govern how ecosystems respond to climate change and biodiversity
loss. Modularity, where subgroups of species interact more often with each other than with …

The ecosystem in practice: Interest and problems of an old definition for constructing ecological models

J Gignoux, ID Davies, SR Flint, JD Zucker - Ecosystems, 2011 - Springer
Since its inception, the ecosystem concept has been widely used in ecology and is
increasingly finding application within other disciplines. In more recent times within ecology …

Differential responses of size‐based functional groups to bottom–up and top–down perturbations in pelagic food webs: a meta‐analysis

FD Hulot, G Lacroix, M Loreau - Oikos, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We performed a meta‐analysis of 31 lake mesocosm experiments to investigate differences
in the responses of pelagic food chains and food webs to nutrient enrichment and fish …

Stable isotope analysis confirms substantial differences between subtropical and temperate shallow lake food webs

C Iglesias, M Meerhoff, LS Johansson… - Hydrobiologia, 2017 - Springer
Differences in trophic web structure in otherwise similar ecosystems as a consequence of
direct or indirect effects of ambient temperature differences can lead to changes in …

Food web topology in high mountain lakes

J Sánchez-Hernández, F Cobo, PA Amundsen - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Although diversity and limnology of alpine lake systems are well studied, their food web
structure and properties have rarely been addressed. Here, the topological food webs of …

Evidence for size-selective predation by Antarctic humpback whales

DE Cade, SR Kahane-Rapport, B Wallis… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Animals aggregate around resource hotspots, but what makes one resource more appealing
than another can be difficult to determine. In March 2020 the Antarctic fjord Charlotte Bay …

Food‐web aggregation, methodological and functional issues

B Gauzens, S Legendre, X Lazzaro, G Lacroix - Oikos, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Trophic species in food webs are often aggregated into fewer groups, using theoretical and
empirical approaches, either for modelling tractability or because of the lack of data …

Animal-borne imaging reveals novel insights into the foraging behaviors and diel activity of a large-bodied apex predator, the American alligator (Alligator …

JC Nifong, RL Nifong, BR Silliman, RH Lowers… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Large-bodied, top-and apex predators (eg, crocodilians, sharks, wolves, killer whales) can
exert strong top-down effects within ecological communities through their interactions with …