U. Brose

Body size is a better predictor of intra- than interspecific variation of animal stoichiometry across realms

The paper analyzes animal stoichiometry across species and body sizes, finding body size better predicts intraspecific than interspecific variation in elemental content.

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.

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.

Biodiversity and local interaction complexity promote sustainable fisheries in large food webs

This study uses a synthetic model to show that fishing impacts on species depend on trophic level, local interaction complexity, and biodiversity, suggesting sustainable fisheries should target low trophic level species in high biodiversity ecosystems.

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.

ATNr : Allometric trophic models in R

The paper introduces the ATNr R package, which implements Allometric Trophic Network models to simulate biomass dynamics of trophically interacting species.

Global environmental drivers of local abundance-mass scaling in soil animal communities

The paper examines how climatic and edaphic factors influence body mass-abundance scaling in soil animal communities across four countries.

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.

Emergence of stable motifs in consumer-resource communities

The paper shows that vertical trophic chains emerge as stable and efficient structures in consumer-resource communities under minimal conditions.

Landscape heterogeneity buffers biodiversity of meta-food-webs under global change through rescue and drainage effects

The biggest losers: Habitat isolation deconstructs complex food webs from top to bottom

This study models how habitat fragmentation affects food web diversity, finding that top predators decline faster due to energy limitations and dispersal challenges.

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

The paper predicts global patterns of earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass using a dataset from 7000 sites, finding climate drives these patterns but with differences from aboveground taxa.

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.

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.

Applying generalised allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods

This study develops and evaluates length-mass regressions to predict arthropod body mass across temperate and tropical regions, finding that including body width improves accuracy and that regional parameters reduce prediction error.

Metabolic adjustment enhances food web stability

The paper shows that metabolic adjustment stabilizes food web dynamics by dampening oscillations and increasing predator biomass, but this effect is reduced in nutrient-rich environments.

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.

Universal scaling of maximum speed with body mass - Why the largest animals are not the fastest

The paper develops a universal scaling model showing maximum speed peaks at a certain body mass, challenging traditional power-law scaling with empirical data across ecosystems and species.

Simulations of biomass dynamics in community food webs

The paper presents a Julia implementation of a bio-energetic food web model to enable reproducible numerical experiments on biomass dynamics.