Food webs are a major focus and organizing theme of ecology, but the data used to
assemble them are deficient. Early debates over food-web data focused on taxonomic …

Over recent decades, ungulate populations across Europe have undergone a rapid
recovery. While this constitutes a conservation success, there is increasing concern about …

Megafauna assemblages have declined or disappeared throughout much of the world, and
many efforts are underway to restore them. Understanding the trophic ecology of such …

Many populations of consumers consist of relatively specialized individuals that eat only a
subset of the foods consumed by the population at large. Although the ecological …

Individual diet specialization (IS) has important community‐and population‐level
implications and its ecological drivers are actively investigated. Here, to test the hypothesis …

The moose (Alces alces) is a dominant large mammalian herbivore in the world's boreal
zones. Moose exert significant browsing impacts on forest vegetation and are therefore often …

Life is organized into more or less well-defined organizational levels, connected both
horizontally and vertically. Our knowledge is richer along the horizontal levels (eg inter …

Niche expansion is attained by adaptations in two generalized phenotypical traits—niche
position and niche width. This gives room for a wide range of conceptual ways of niche …

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a high-throughput technology with potential to infer
nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and carbon (C) content of all vascular plants based on …

Niche variation at population level mediates niche packing (ie patterns of species' spread
within the niche space) and species coexistence at community level. Competition and …