Animal tracking moves community ecology: Opportunities and challenges

R Costa‐Pereira, RJ Moll, BR Jesmer… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Individual decisions regarding how, why and when organisms interact with one another and
with their environment scale up to shape patterns and processes in communities. Recent …

Using individual‐based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant‐pollinator network responses to environmental change

A Cantwell‐Jones, JM Tylianakis, K Larson… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how and why organisms interact is fundamental to understanding ecosystem
responses to future environmental change. To assess the impact on plant‐pollinator …

Intraspecific variation in species interactions promotes the feasibility of mutualistic assemblages

B Arroyo‐Correa, P Jordano, I Bartomeus - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns of resource use observed at the species level emerge from the way individuals
exploit the range of available resources. Hence, accounting for interindividual differences in …

Nitrogen and water addition alters species diversity and interspecific relationship in a desert grassland

Z Du, X Zhang, S Liu, H An - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Water and nitrogen (N) often affect plant species diversity and interspecific relationship
among plant populations in global terrestrial ecosystems. However, the effects of water and …

Habitat alteration facilitates the dominance of invasive species through disrupting niche partitioning in floodplain wetlands

Y Wang, W Tan, B Li, L Wen, G Lei - Diversity and Distributions, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Exotic species invasion often leads to declines in local and regional biodiversity,
particularly in freshwater ecosystems. This biodiversity loss is generally facilitated by human …

Microplastics could alter invasive plant community performance and the dominance of Amaranthus palmeri

Z Meng, X Mo, W Meng, B Hu, B Liu, H Li, J Liu… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increase in alien plant invasions poses a major threat to global biodiversity and
ecosystem stability. However, the presence of microplastics (MPs) as an environmental …

Nitrogen supply neutralizes the nanoplastic-plant interaction in a coastal wetland

C Zhang, Y Lin, Q Xue, X Mo, M He, J Liu - Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The presence of nanoplastics posed a potential threat to coastal saline-alkaline wetlands
where nitrogen (N) fertilizer is being implemented as an important ecological restoration …

Trophic plasticity of mixotrophic corals under contrasting environments

N Sturaro, YE Hsieh, Q Chen, PL Wang… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mixotrophic organisms can derive nutrition from both auto‐and heterotrophy, which allows
them to use a variety of trophic pathways to sustain their metabolic demands under variable …

The effect of inter‐and intraspecific competition on individual and population niche widths: a four‐decade study on two interacting salmonids

S Prati, EH Henriksen, A Smalås, R Knudsen… - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Competition is assumed to shape niche widths, affecting species survival and coexistence.
Expectedly, high interspecific competition will reduce population niche widths, whereas high …

Beyond ecological opportunity: Prey diversity rather than abundance shapes predator niche variation

J Sánchez‐Hernández, AG Finstad… - Freshwater …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological opportunity (ie the diversity of available resources) has a pivotal role in sha**
niche variation and trophic specialisation of animals. However, ecological opportunity can …