The soil microbiome regulates vital ecosystem functions ranging from primary production to
soil carbon sequestration. Yet, we have only begun to understand the factors regulating the …

Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological
systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types …

Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an
emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and responds dynamically to …

Knowledge of feeding rates is the basis to understand interaction strength and subsequently
the stability of ecosystems and biodiversity. Feeding rates, as all biological rates, depend on …

1. Consumer‐resource interactions (ie the functional response) underpin decades of
ecological advancements. However, selecting, fitting and comparing functional response …

Warming could strongly stabilize or destabilize populations and food webs by changing the
interaction strengths between predators and their prey. Predicting the consequences of …

Tropical forests shelter an unparalleled biological diversity. The relative influence of
environmental selection (ie, abiotic conditions, biotic interactions) and stochastic–distance …

Trophic interactions govern biomass fluxes in ecosystems, and stability in food webs.
Knowledge of how trophic interaction strengths are affected by differences among habitats is …

Ecological studies are increasingly moving towards trait‐based approaches, as the
evidence mounts that functions, as opposed to taxonomy, drive ecosystem service delivery …

Body mass is a key life‐history trait in animals. Despite being the largest animals on the
planet, no method currently exists to estimate body mass of free‐living whales. We …