The multilayer nature of ecological networks

S Pilosof, MA Porter, M Pascual, S Kéfi - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological
systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types …

Scavenging: how carnivores and carrion structure communities

EE Wilson, EM Wolkovich - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2011 - cell.com
Recent advances in the ecology of food webs underscore the importance of detritus and
indirect predator–prey effects. However, most research considers detritus as an invariable …

Diversity of interaction types and ecological community stability

A Mougi, M Kondoh - Science, 2012 - science.org
Ecological theory predicts that a complex community formed by a number of species is
inherently unstable, guiding ecologists to identify what maintains species diversity in nature …

[BOOK][B] Evolutionary parasitology: the integrated study of infections, immunology, ecology, and genetics

P Schmid-Hempel - 2021 - books.google.com
Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces sha** the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

A global parasite conservation plan

CJ Carlson, S Hopkins, KC Bell, J Doña… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Found throughout the tree of life and in every ecosystem, parasites are some of the most
diverse, ecologically important animals on Earth—but in almost all cases, the least protected …

A reconstruction of parasite burden reveals one century of climate-associated parasite decline

CL Wood, RL Welicky, WC Preisser… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Long-term data allow ecologists to assess trajectories of population abundance. Without this
context, it is impossible to know whether a taxon is thriving or declining to extinction. For …

Homage to Linnaeus: how many parasites? How many hosts?

A Dobson, KD Lafferty, AM Kuris… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Estimates of the total number of species that inhabit the Earth have increased significantly
since Linnaeus's initial catalog of 20,000 species. The best recent estimates suggest that …

[BOOK][B] The biology of lakes and ponds

C Brönmark, LA Hansson - 2017 - books.google.com
A concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and
ponds). As with other books in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in this book is on …

An ecological network approach to predict ecosystem service vulnerability to species losses

AA Keyes, JP McLaughlin, AK Barner… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Human-driven threats are changing biodiversity, impacting ecosystem services. The loss of
one species can trigger secondary extinctions of additional species, because species …

Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems

U Brose, P Archambault, AD Barnes… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Predator–prey interactions in natural ecosystems generate complex food webs that have a
simple universal body-size architecture where predators are systematically larger than their …