Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts

BI Simmons, PSA Blyth, JL Blanchard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

RV Gallagher, DS Falster, BS Maitner… - Nature ecology & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand
challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and …

The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning

BJ Enquist, AJ Abraham, MBJ Harfoot, Y Malhi… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the
megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive …

Estimating global biomass and biogeochemical cycling of marine fish with and without fishing

D Bianchi, DA Carozza, ED Galbraith, J Guiet… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
The biomass and biogeochemical roles of fish in the ocean are ecologically important but
poorly known. Here, we use a data-constrained marine ecosystem model to provide a first …

Body size in ecological networks

G Woodward, B Ebenman, M Emmerson… - Trends in ecology & …, 2005‏ - cell.com
Body size determines a host of species traits that can affect the structure and dynamics of
food webs, and other ecological networks, across multiple scales of organization. Measuring …

Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life

R Trebilco, JK Baum, AK Salomon, NK Dulvy - Trends in ecology & …, 2013‏ - cell.com
Biomass distribution and energy flow in ecosystems are traditionally described with trophic
pyramids, and increasingly with size spectra, particularly in aquatic ecosystems. Here, we …

Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology

EP White, SKM Ernest, AJ Kerkhoff… - Trends in ecology & …, 2007‏ - cell.com
Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is related to many
biological traits, including abundance. The relationship between abundance and body size …

The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization

GB West, JH Brown - Journal of experimental biology, 2005‏ - journals.biologists.com
Life is the most complex physical phenomenon in the Universe, manifesting an extraordinary
diversity of form and function over an enormous scale from the largest animals and plants to …

Global marine primary production constrains fisheries catches

E Chassot, S Bonhommeau, NK Dulvy, F Mélin… - Ecology …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 495–505 Abstract Primary production must constrain the amount
of fish and invertebrates available to expanding fisheries; however the degree of limitation …

The predominance of quarter‐power scaling in biology

VM Savage, JF Gillooly, WH Woodruff… - Functional …, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Recent studies have resurrected the debate over the value for the allometric
scaling exponent that relates whole‐organism metabolic rate to body size. Is it 3/4 or 2/3 …