The temporal dynamics of multiple stressor effects: from individuals to ecosystems

MC Jackson, S Pawar, G Woodward - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Multiple stressors, such as warming and invasions, often occur together and have
nonadditive effects. Most studies to date assume that stressors operate in perfect synchrony …

Can metabolic traits explain animal community assembly and functioning?

SJ Brandl, JS Lefcheck, AE Bates… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
All animals on Earth compete for free energy, which is acquired, assimilated, and ultimately
allocated to growth and reproduction. Competition is strongest within communities of …

Rewiring the altered tryptophan metabolism as a novel therapeutic strategy in inflammatory bowel diseases

C Michaudel, C Danne, A Agus, A Magniez… - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
Objective The extent to which tryptophan (Trp) metabolism alterations explain or influence
the outcome of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) is still unclear. However, several Trp …

Concerted evolution of metabolic rate, economics of mating, ecology, and pace of life across seed beetles

G Arnqvist, J Rönn, C Watson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Male–female coevolution has taken different paths among closely related species, but our
understanding of the factors that govern its direction is limited. While it is clear that …

Ecological strategies of (pl) ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants

H Gibb, TR Bishop, L Leahy, CL Parr… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Current global challenges call for a rigorously predictive ecology. Our understanding of
ecological strategies, imputed through suites of measurable functional traits, comes from …

Universal rules of life: metabolic rates, biological times and the equal fitness paradigm

J Robert Burger, C Hou, C AS Hall, JH Brown - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Life history optimisation drives latitudinal gradients and responses to global change in marine fishes

M Álvarez-Noriega, CR White, J Kozłowski, T Day… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Within many species, and particularly fish, fecundity does not scale with mass linearly;
instead, it scales disproportionately. Disproportionate intraspecific size–reproduction …

Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on stream macroinvertebrate community composition and functional diversity

NPD Juvigny‐Khenafou, JJ Piggott… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ensuring the provision of essential ecosystem services in systems affected by multiple
stressors is a key challenge for theoretical and applied ecology. Trait‐based approaches …

Towards an animal economics spectrum for ecosystem research

RR Junker, J Albrecht, M Becker, R Keuth… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The framework of the plant economics spectrum advanced our understanding of plant
ecology and proved as a unifying concept across plant taxonomy, growth forms and biomes …

The pace of life: metabolic energy, biological time, and life history

JH Brown, JR Burger, C Hou… - … and Comparative Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
New biophysical theory and electronic databases raise the prospect of deriving fundamental
rules of life, a conceptual framework for how the structures and functions of molecules, cells …