Energy flux: the link between multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

AD Barnes, M Jochum, JS Lefcheck… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Relating biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in natural communities has become a
paramount challenge as links between trophic complexity and multiple ecosystem functions …

Energy flow through marine ecosystems: confronting transfer efficiency

TD Eddy, JR Bernhardt, JL Blanchard… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an
emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and responds dynamically to …

Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory

AD Barnes, C Scherber, U Brose, ET Borer… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Arthropod herbivores cause substantial economic costs that drive an increasing need to
develop environmentally sustainable approaches to herbivore control. Increasing plant …

Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans

PM Sander, EM Griebeler, N Klein, JV Juarbe… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The iterative evolution of secondarily marine tetrapods since the Paleozoic
offers the promise of better understanding how the anatomy and ecology of animals change …

Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels

AM Potapov - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The belowground compartment of terrestrial ecosystems drives nutrient cycling, the
decomposition and stabilisation of organic matter, and supports aboveground life …

Earthworms coordinate soil biota to improve multiple ecosystem functions

T Liu, X Chen, X Gong, IM Lubbers, Y Jiang, W Feng… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Earthworms have been perceived as benevolent soil engineers since the time of Charles
Darwin, but several recent syntheses link earthworm activities to higher greenhouse gas …

DNA metabarcoding highlights cyanobacteria as the main source of primary production in a pelagic food web model

A Novotny, B Serandour, S Kortsch, B Gauzens… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Models that estimate rates of energy flow in complex food webs often fail to account for
species-specific prey selectivity of diverse consumer guilds. While DNA metabarcoding is …

Organic amendments increase the flow uniformity of energy across nematode food webs

B Wan, Z Hu, T Liu, Q Yang, D Li, C Zhang… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy dynamics within ecological communities are important in delivering ecosystem
services. However, it remains elusive how the energy fluxes within soil food webs respond to …

Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning

S Kortsch, R Frelat, L Pecuchet, P Olivier… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studying how food web structure and function vary through time represents an opportunity to
better comprehend and anticipate ecosystem changes. Yet, temporal studies of highly …

Soil fauna diversity and chemical stressors: a review of knowledge gaps and roadmap for future research

L Beaumelle, L Thouvenot, J Hines, M Jochum… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soils harbour highly‐diverse invertebrate communities that play important roles for
ecosystem services, including the mitigation of environmental pollution. Chemical stressors …