Body size determines a host of species traits that can affect the structure and dynamics of
food webs, and other ecological networks, across multiple scales of organization. Measuring …

Biomass distribution and energy flow in ecosystems are traditionally described with trophic
pyramids, and increasingly with size spectra, particularly in aquatic ecosystems. Here, we …

The biomass and biogeochemical roles of fish in the ocean are ecologically important but
poorly known. Here, we use a data-constrained marine ecosystem model to provide a first …

Proposed links between biodiversity and ecosystem processes have generated intense
interest and controversy in recent years. With few exceptions, however, empirical studies …

It has been suggested that differences in body size between consumer and resource
species may have important implications for interaction strengths, population dynamics, and …

Classic local stability theory predicts that complex ecological networks are unstable and are
unlikely to persist despite empiricists' abundant documentation of such complexity in nature …

1. Recent efforts to understand how the patterning of interaction strength affects both
structure and dynamics in food webs have highlighted several obstacles to productive …

Accurately assessing the effects of multiple human‐caused stressors on freshwater (and
other) ecosystems is an essential step in the development of efficient decision support tools …

Despite the major importance of soil biota in nutrient and energy fluxes, interactions in soil
food webs are poorly understood. Here we provide an overview of recent advances in …

Summary 1 Body‐size may be an important feature of the structure of food webs. Detailed
food web data are however scarce, particularly those including ontogenetic dietary shifts …