Ontogenetic dietary shifts (ODSs), the changes in diet utilisation occurring over the life span
of an individual consumer, are widespread in the animal kingdom. Understanding ODSs …

The state of knowledge on the science and management of freshwater recreational fisheries
is reviewed, with the objective of integrating insights from disparate fields such as fisheries …

Behavioral traits and diet were traditionally thought to be highly plastic within individuals.
This view was espoused in the widespread use of optimality models, which broadly predict …

Size-based ecosystem modeling is emerging as a powerful way to assess ecosystem-level
impacts of human-and environment-driven changes from individual-level processes. These …

Ocean acidification, chemical changes to the carbonate system of seawater, is emerging as
a key environmental challenge accompanying global warming and other human‐induced …

Over the past 30 years, one of the most rapidly expanding areas in ecology has been the
development of structured population models, where individuals have attributes such as …

The development of the isotopic niche, an n-dimensional hypervolume (with n being the
number of isotopes) occupied by a population in delta space, has revolutionized the study of …

Fish have proven to be model organisms for the study of animal personalities, and a rich
literature documents consistent interindividual behavioral differences in a variety of species …

Evolutionary biologists tend to approach the study of the natural world within a framework of
adaptation, inspired perhaps by the power of natural selection to produce fitness …

Predator–prey cycles rank among the most fundamental concepts in ecology, are predicted
by the simplest ecological models and enable, theoretically, the indefinite persistence of …