Interpreting random forest analysis of ecological models to move from prediction to explanation

SM Simon, P Glaum, FS Valdovinos - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
As modeling tools and approaches become more advanced, ecological models are
becoming more complex. Traditional sensitivity analyses can struggle to identify the …

Integrating Network and Meta‐Ecosystem Models for Develo** a Zoogeochemical Theory

SJ Leroux, OJ Schmitz - Ecology Letters, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities have caused significant changes in animal abundance, interactions,
movement and diversity at multiple scales. Growing empirical evidence reveals the myriad …

Animal and plant space‐use drive plant diversity–productivity relationships

G Albert, B Gauzens, R Ryser, E Thébault… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant community productivity generally increases with biodiversity, but the strength of this
relationship exhibits strong empirical variation. In meta‐food‐web simulations, we …

Effects of joint invasion: How co-invaders affect each other's success in model food webs?

Á Móréh, F Jordán, I Scheuring - Ecological Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
While there has been considerable research on the interactions between invasive and
native species, and on the impact of invasive species on the resident community, there has …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme capital breeding for giants: Effects of body size on humpback whale energy expenditure and fasting endurance

F Christiansen, PT Madsen, V Andrews-Goff… - Ecological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Baleen whales are extreme capital breeders, capable of fasting for more than half a year
while migrating thousands of kilometres and nursing rapidly growing offspring that …

A highly resolved network reveals the role of terrestrial herbivory in structuring aboveground food webs

KRS Hale, JD Curlis, GG Auteri… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Comparative studies suggest remarkable similarities among food webs across habitats,
including systematic changes in their structure with diversity and complexity (scale …

Plant communities and food webs

A Dobson, MC Hutchinson, S Batterman - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recent theoretical work has provided major new insights into the ways that species
interactions in food webs are organized in ways that permit the coexistence of significant …

Animal movement and plant space-use drive plant diversity-productivity relationships

G Albert, B Gauzens, R Ryser, E Thébault… - Authorea …, 2023 - authorea.com
Plant community productivity generally increases with biodiversity, but the strength of this
relationship exhibits strong empirical variation. In meta-food-web simulations, we addressed …

Invaders' trophic position and their direct and indirect relationship influence on resident food webs

A Moreh, I Scheuring - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Many ecosystems are undergoing simultaneous colonization and spread of multiple alien
species. Invaders often negatively affect communities by reducing population sizes of …

[PDF][PDF] A highly resolved multiplex network reveals the structural role of insects and plants in terrestrial food webs

KRS Hale, JD Curlis, GG Auteri, S Bishop… - …, 2023 - storage.prod.researchhub.com
25 Hale, https://orcid. org/0000-0002-2627-9623; Curlis, https://orcid. org/0000-0002-2974-
7330; 26 Auteri, https://orcid. org/0000-0002-5579-8078; Bishop, https://orcid. org/0000 …