Microbiome, 2020 Background Recent increases in understanding the ecological and evolutionary roles of microbial communities have underscored the importance of their hosts’ biology.
Andreas Härer +5 more
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Dual stable isotope abundances unravel trophic position of estuarine nematodes [PDF]
, 2005 The role and quantitative importance of free-living nematodes in marine and estuarine soft sediments remain enigmatic for lack of empirical evidence on the feeding habits and trophic position of most nematode species.
BOUILLON, S, GALLUCCI, F, Moens, Tom
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Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide [PDF]
, 2014 Ecological trait data are essential for understanding the broad-scale distribution of biodiversity and its response to global change. For animals, diet represents a fundamental aspect of species’ evolutionary adaptations, ecological and functional roles,
Dalby, Lars +7 more
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Energy, Trophic Dynamics and Ecological Discounting
Land, 2023 Ecosystems provide humanity with a wide variety and high economic value-added services, from biomass structuring to genetic information, pollutants’ decomposition, water purification and climate regulation. The foundation of ecosystem services is the Eltonian Pyramid, where via prey–predator relationships, energy metabolism and biomass building take ...
Georgios Karakatsanis, Nikos Mamassis
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TROPHIC CIRCULATION IN ECOSYSTEMS
Ecosistemas y Recursos Agropecuarios, 2016 The trophic aspect of ecology has been studied for more than six decades; in this contribution we address theoretical aspects relative to the concept of trophic ow at the ecosystem level and from the thermodynamics point of view.
Manuel Zetina-Rejón +3 more
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Food Web Trophic Structure at Marine Ranch Sites off the East Coast of Korea
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Understanding the trophic ecology of the giant Pacific octopus Enteroctopus dofleini is challenging in developing marine ranches and in reestablishing its regional stocks against the severe stress of fishing. We adopted carbon and nitrogen stable isotope
Hee Yoon Kang +7 more
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Beyond the fish-Daphnia paradigm: testing the potential for pygmy backswimmers (Neoplea striola) to cause trophic cascades in subtropical ponds [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Trophic cascades, or indirect effects of predators on non-adjacent lower trophic levels, are a classic phenomenon in ecology, and are thought to be strongest in aquatic ecosystems.
Chase J. Rakowski, Mathew A. Leibold
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On the methodology of feeding ecology in fish [PDF]
, 2016 Feeding ecology explains predator’s preference to some preys over others in their habitat and their competitions thereof. The subject, as a functional and applied biology, is highly neglected, and in case of fish, a uniform and consistent ...
Saikia, Surjya Kumar
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Reductions in the dietary niche of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the Holocene to the Anthropocene. [PDF]
, 2020 The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal hunted to near extinction during the 1800s. Despite their well-known modern importance as a keystone species, we know little about historical sea otter ecology.
Elliott Smith, Emma A +7 more
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Emergent global patterns of ecosystem structure and function from a mechanistic general ecosystem model [PDF]
, 2014 Anthropogenic activities are causing widespread degradation of ecosystems worldwide, threatening the ecosystem services upon which all human life depends.
A Friedlander +109 more
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