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View article: Habitat Complexity Reduces the Feeding Strength of Freshwater Predators
Habitat Complexity Reduces the Feeding Strength of Freshwater Predators Open
The physical structure of an environment potentially influences feeding interactions among organisms, for instance, by providing refuge for prey. We examined how habitat complexity affects the functional feeding response of an ambush preda…
View article: Habitat complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators
Habitat complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators Open
1. The physical structure of an environment potentially influences feeding interactions among organisms, for instance, by providing refuge for prey. We examined how habitat complexity affects the functional feeding response of an ambush pr…
View article: Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare
Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare Open
More than 70 years after its introduction, the framework of resource density-dependent consumption rates, also known as predator-prey functional responses, remains a core concept in population and food web ecology. Initially, three types o…
View article: Rare type III responses: data & data methods (v1.0.0)
Rare type III responses: data & data methods (v1.0.0) Open
This repository includes the data (data-rare-type3-responses.csv) for Kalinkat et al. (2023). The data comprises a literature review on type III functional responses between 2002 and 2022 with 12 variables and 107 observations. Please read…
View article: Rare type III responses: data & data methods (v1.0.0)
Rare type III responses: data & data methods (v1.0.0) Open
This repository includes the data (data-rare-type3-responses.csv) for Kalinkat et al. (2023). The data comprises a literature review on type III functional responses between 2002 and 2022 with 12 variables and 107 observations. Please read…
View article: Data from "Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare"
Data from "Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare" Open
This repository includes the data (data-rare-type3-responses.csv) to "Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare" by Kalinkat, Rall, Uiterwaal, and Uszko (under review). The data comprises a literature revi…
View article: Kalinkat, Brose, Rall 2013 data
Kalinkat, Brose, Rall 2013 data Open
raw data from Kalinkat et al (2013) Habitat structure alters top-down control in litter communities Oecologia 172:877-887
View article: Fish Species Sensitivity Ranking Depends on Pesticide Exposure Profiles
Fish Species Sensitivity Ranking Depends on Pesticide Exposure Profiles Open
In the regulatory environmental risk assessment of plant protection products, the exposure tested in standard toxicity tests assumes simple exposure dynamics, such as constant exposure at the first stage of testing. However, environmental …
View article: Phage strategies facilitate bacterial coexistence under environmental variability
Phage strategies facilitate bacterial coexistence under environmental variability Open
Bacterial communities are often exposed to temporal variations in resource availability, which exceed bacterial generation times and thereby affect bacterial coexistence. Bacterial population dynamics are also shaped by bacteriophages, whi…
View article: Thermal acclimation increases the stability of a predator–prey interaction in warmer environments
Thermal acclimation increases the stability of a predator–prey interaction in warmer environments Open
Global warming over the next century is likely to alter the energy demands of consumers and thus the strengths of their interactions with their resources. The subsequent cascading effects on population biomasses could have profound effects…
View article: Dataset for Sohlström et al. - Future climate and land-use intensification modify arthropod community structure
Dataset for Sohlström et al. - Future climate and land-use intensification modify arthropod community structure Open
The file provided contains the data used to generate all results in the paper: Sohlström et al. - Future climate and land-use intensification modify arthropod community structure.
View article: Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes
Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes Open
View article: The biggest losers: habitat isolation deconstructs complex food webs from top to bottom
The biggest losers: habitat isolation deconstructs complex food webs from top to bottom Open
Habitat fragmentation threatens global biodiversity. To date, there is only limited understanding of how the different aspects of habitat fragmentation (habitat loss, number of fragments and isolation) affect species diversity within compl…
View article: Consistent temperature dependence of functional response parameters and their use in predicting population abundance
Consistent temperature dependence of functional response parameters and their use in predicting population abundance Open
Global warming is one of the greatest threats to the persistence of populations: increased metabolic demands should strengthen pairwise species interactions, which could destabilize food webs at the higher organizational levels. Quantifyin…
View article: Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems
Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems Open
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View article: The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting
The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting Open
Successfully predicting the future states of systems that are complex, stochastic, and potentially chaotic is a major challenge. Model forecasting error ( FE ) is the usual measure of success; however model predictions provide no insights …
View article: Applying generalized allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods
Applying generalized allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods Open
The ecological implications of body size extend from the biology of individual organisms to ecosystem‐level processes. Measuring body mass for high numbers of invertebrates can be logistically challenging, making length–mass regressions us…
View article: The biggest losers: Habitat isolation deconstructs complex food webs from top to bottom
The biggest losers: Habitat isolation deconstructs complex food webs from top to bottom Open
Habitat fragmentation is threatening global biodiversity. To date, there is only limited understanding of how the different aspects of habitat fragmentation (habitat loss, number of fragments and isolation) affect species diversity within …
View article: Fitting functional responses: Direct parameter estimation by simulating differential equations
Fitting functional responses: Direct parameter estimation by simulating differential equations Open
The feeding functional response is one of the most widespread mathematical frameworks in ecology, marine biology, freshwater biology, microbiology, and related scientific fields describing the resource‐dependent uptake of a consumer. Since…
View article: The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting
The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting Open
Successfully predicting the future states of systems that are complex, stochastic and potentially chaotic is a major challenge. Model forecasting error (FE) is the usual measure of success; however model predictions provide no insights int…
View article: Applying generalised allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods
Applying generalised allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods Open
1. The ecological implications of body size extend from the biology of individual organisms to ecosystem–level processes. Measuring body mass for high numbers of invertebrates can be logistically challenging, making length-mass regressions…
View article: Kalinkat et al. 2011 data
Kalinkat et al. 2011 data Open
Data on a series of laboratory feeding experiments with ground beetles and cursorial spiders of different sizes as predators. Each trial contained one predator individual and two prey species of different body sizes.
View article: Kalinkat, Schneider et al 2013 data
Kalinkat, Schneider et al 2013 data Open
Data on a series of laboratory feeding experiments with ground beetles, cursorial spiders and centipedes of different sizes as predators. Each trial contained one predator individual and varying densities of a single prey species of differ…
View article: Testing the validity of functional response models using molecular gut content analysis for prey choice in soil predators
Testing the validity of functional response models using molecular gut content analysis for prey choice in soil predators Open
Analysis of predator–prey interactions is a core concept of animal ecology, explaining structure and dynamics of animal food webs. Measuring the functional response, i.e. the intake rate of a consumer as a function of prey density, is a po…
View article: Experimental duration and predator satiation levels systematically affect functional response parameters
Experimental duration and predator satiation levels systematically affect functional response parameters Open
Empirical feeding studies where density‐dependent consumption rates are fitted to functional response models are often used to parameterize the interaction strengths in models of population or food‐web dynamics. However, the relationship b…
View article: Fitting functional responses: Direct parameter estimation by simulating differential equations
Fitting functional responses: Direct parameter estimation by simulating differential equations Open
The feeding functional response is one of the most widespread mathematical frameworks in Ecology, Marine Biology, Freshwater Biology, Microbiology and related scientific fields describing the resource-dependent uptake of a consumer. Since …
View article: Combining molecular gut content analysis and functional response models shows how body size affects prey choice in soil predators
Combining molecular gut content analysis and functional response models shows how body size affects prey choice in soil predators Open
Summary Predator-prey interactions are a core concept of animal ecology and functional response models provide a powerful tool to predict the strength of trophic links and assess motives for prey choice. However, due to their reductionist …
View article: Experimental duration and predator satiation levels systematically affect functional response parameters
Experimental duration and predator satiation levels systematically affect functional response parameters Open
Empirical feeding studies where density-dependent consumption rates are fitted to functional response models are often used to parametrize the interaction strengths in models of population or food-web dynamics. However, the relationship be…