Temporal community change in stream ecosystems varies by assemblage across US climates
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecosystem properties are temporally dynamic. Temporal variability has been shown to decrease with increasing levels of biological organization (i.e. from population to community and ecosystem levels).
Megan C. Malish +6 more
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Population structure and foraging ecology of juvenile black sea bass, tautog, and cunner in a southern New England estuary: Habitat and trophic niche overlap amid a species geographic range expansion. [PDF]
Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 2023 Taylor DL +7 more
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Community‐level effects of Müllerian mimicry on pollinator diversity and functioning
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Müllerian mimicry, a mutualistic interaction in which harmful species evolve similar warning signals, is often accompanied by niche divergence among mimetic species. While these aspects have traditionally been studied in an evolutionary context, their community‐level ...
Paola Laiolo, José Ramón Obeso
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Trophic niche partitioning between two prey and their incidental predators revealed various threats for an endangered species. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 Rioux È, Pelletier F, St-Laurent MH.
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Larval diet breadth and wingspan mediate landscape–richness relationship in butterfly communities
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Landscape structure and species traits both shape butterfly assemblages, but their joint effects, and how landscapes restructure trait space independently of richness, remain less understood.
Dušanka Vujanović +10 more
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Trophic niche shifts and phenotypic trait evolution are largely decoupled in Australasian parrots. [PDF]
BMC Ecol Evol, 2021 García-Navas V +6 more
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Trait distributions provide insight into how niches overlap within a broader trait space. By integrating individual‐level trait observations from different communities, we can explore how facets of trait dimensionality vary across environmental conditions.
Alicia McGrew +6 more
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Trophic niche overlap between coyotes and gray foxes in a temperate forest in Durango, Mexico. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Rodríguez-Luna CR +3 more
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Evolution of the trophic niche and food web structure
, 2011 Food webs – networks of predator-prey interactions – are of fundamental importance to the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of biodiversity. The stability and functioning of food webs can be dependent on their 'vertical' structure: the distribution of species' trophic positions, the length of food chains and the prevalence of omnivory.
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Apex predators exploit advantageous snow conditions across hunting modes
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Advantageous snow conditions—in terms of snow depth and density—are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. In a warming climate, the knock‐on effects of a diminishing snowpack may reduce the hunting success of multiple large carnivore species.
Benjamin K. Sullender +7 more
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