The worldwide loss of species diversity brings urgency to understanding how diverse
ecosystems maintain stability. Whereas early ecological ideas and classic observations …

Complex networks pervade various real-world systems, from the natural environment to
human societies. The essence of these networks is in their ability to transition and evolve …

Quantifying the relationship between phytoplankton and zooplankton may offer insight into
zooplankton sensitivity to shifting phytoplankton assemblages and the potential impacts of …

Macroecological scaling patterns, such as between prey and predator biomass, are
fundamental to our understanding of the rules of biological organization and ecosystem …

Species‐rich communities exhibit higher levels of ecosystem functioning compared with
species‐poor ones, and this positive relationship strengthens over time. One proposed …

Understanding the formation of feeding links provides insights into processes underlying
food webs. Generally, predators feed on prey within a certain body‐size range, but a …

Gelatinous filter feeders (eg, salps, doliolids, and pyrosomes) have high filtration rates and
can feed at predator: prey size ratios exceeding 10,000: 1, yet are seldom included in …

Theory predicts that morphological and bioenergetic constraints due to temperature‐
induced body size reduction can modulate the direct effects of warming on biotic …

Background Fertilization practices control bacterial wilt-causing Ralstonia solanacearum by
shaping the soil microbiome. This microbiome is the start of food webs, in which nematodes …

Both metabolism and growth scale sublinearly with body mass across species. Ecosystems
show the same sublinear scaling between production and total biomass, but ecological …