B. Rosenbaum

Towards understanding interactions in a complex world: Design and analysis of multi-species functional response experiments

The paper develops a Bayesian framework to analyze multi-species functional response experiments, identifying optimal experimental designs and demonstrating robust model selection despite noise.

Extreme in Every Way: Exceedingly Low Genetic Diversity in Snow Leopards Due to Persistently Small Population Size

This study uses whole-genome sequencing of 41 snow leopards to show they have the lowest genetic diversity of any big cat species due to long-term small population size, not recent inbreeding.

Quantitative description of six fish species' gut contents and abundances of their prey in the benthic food web of the Baltic Sea (1968-1978)

The paper compiles and analyzes gut content data from six fish species in the Baltic Sea to study trophic interactions and foraging behavior in relation to environmental changes.

Improving forest ecosystem functions by optimizing tree species spatial arrangement

The paper shows that increasing tree species spatial heterogeneity in forests improves litter decomposition and nitrogen cycling by 45%.

Heat dissipation drives the hump-shaped scaling of animal dispersal speed with body mass

The paper develops a model showing that heat dissipation limits dispersal speed in animals, leading to a hump-shaped relationship with body mass, supported by empirical data across 531 species.

Confronting population models with experimental microcosm data: from trajectory matching to state-space models

The paper compares error structures for fitting deterministic ODE models to empirical population dynamics data, showing that appropriate error models can accurately estimate parameters even with process variability.

Warming decreases host survival with multiple parasitoids, but parasitoid performance also decreases

The paper examines how warming affects host survival and parasitoid performance in multi-parasitoid systems, finding that while warming enhances top-down control, parasitoid performance declines due to competition.

Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change

The paper shows that flexible foraging in fish leads to reduced consumption efficiency and biodiversity under warming conditions.

Spatial distribution of local patch extinctions drives recovery dynamics in metacommunities

The paper investigates how the spatial distribution of local patch extinctions affects metacommunity dynamics and diversity, finding that clustered extinctions reduce recovery and alter diversity patterns.

fluxweb: a R package to easily estimate energy fluxes in food webs

fluxweb estimates energy fluxes in food webs using a steady-state model and integrates with allometric theory, providing tools for flux calculation and network stability analysis.

Estimating parameters from multiple time series of population dynamics using Bayesian inference

This paper estimates model parameters and their variability from experimental time series data using Bayesian inference and dynamical population models, showing that cyclic dynamics provide more precise parameter estimates than steady states.

The geometry of habitat fragmentation: effects of distribution patterns on short-term species persistence

This study quantifies geometric fragmentation effects on species persistence using spatial simulations, finding positive effects for aggregated species distributions and weakly negative for regular distributions.

The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting

The paper quantifies intrinsic predictability of ecological time series using permutation entropy and shows its relationship with model forecasting error.

Fitting functional responses: Direct parameter estimation by simulating differential equations

This paper introduces a new method for estimating parameters of functional responses by simulating differential equations, outperforming classical methods in complex scenarios.

Interactive effects of shifting body size and feeding adaptation drive interaction strengths of protist predators under warming

This study shows that protist predators adapt to warming by increasing feeding rates and decreasing body size, helping to maintain energy balance and prevent extinction.