Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Energy metabolism (encompassing energy assimilation, conversion and utilization) plays a
central role in all life processes and serves as a link between the organismal physiology …

Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand
challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and …

Knowing where species occur is fundamental to many ecological and environmental
applications. Species distribution models (SDMs) are typically based on correlations …

Coastal areas have been increasingly affected by human activities, marine pollution and
climate change are among the most important pressures affecting these environments …

Quantifying sublethal effects of plastics ingestion on marine wildlife is difficult, but key to
understanding the ontogeny and population dynamics of affected species. We developed a …

Mechanistic niche models characterise the fundamental niche of an organism by
determining thermodynamic constraints on its heat, water and nutritional budget, and the …

Mechanistic forecasts of how species will respond to climate change are highly desired but
difficult to achieve. Because processes at different scales are explicit in such models, careful …

Individual performance defines population dynamics. Condition index–a ratio of weight and
some function of length–has been louded as an indicator of individual performance and …

Here we review and extend the equal fitness paradigm (EFP) as an important step in
developing and testing a synthetic theory of ecology and evolution based on energy and …