The global biodiversity crisis concerns not only unprecedented loss of species within
communities, but also related consequences for ecosystem function. Community ecology …

In community and population ecology, there is a chronic gap between the classic Eltonian
ecology describing patterns in abundance and body mass across species and ecosystems …

Knowledge of feeding rates is the basis to understand interaction strength and subsequently
the stability of ecosystems and biodiversity. Feeding rates, as all biological rates, depend on …

1. Consumer‐resource interactions (ie the functional response) underpin decades of
ecological advancements. However, selecting, fitting and comparing functional response …

Classic local stability theory predicts that complex ecological networks are unstable and are
unlikely to persist despite empiricists' abundant documentation of such complexity in nature …

1. Recent efforts to understand how the patterning of interaction strength affects both
structure and dynamics in food webs have highlighted several obstacles to productive …

This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its
contributing chapter authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions and food web …

Species are linked to each other by a myriad of positive and negative interactions. This
complex spectrum of interactions constitutes a network of links that mediates ecological …

Predictions on the consequences of the rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and
associated climate warming for population dynamics, ecological community structure and …

Previous studies suggest that food-web theory has yet to account for major differences in
food-web properties of marine versus other types of ecosystems. We examined this issue by …