Charles Elton introduced the “pyramid of numbers” in the late 1920s, but this remarkable
insight into body-size dependent patterns in natural communities lay fallow until the theory of …

It has long been hypothesized that aquatic biomass is evenly distributed among logarithmic
body mass size classes. Although this community structure has been observed regionally …

The use of the CEN (European Committee for Standardization) standard method for
sampling fish in lakes using multi-mesh gillnets allowed the collection of fish assemblages of …

The biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning debate is a central topic in ecology. Recently, there
has been a growing interest in size diversity because body size is sensitive to environmental …

Aim Our aim was to document geographical patterns of variation in the body‐size structure
of European lake fish assemblages along abiotic gradients, and any differences in fish …

A fundamental ecological trait of marine organisms is body size. Various theoretical models
have used the size distribution of plankton communities to explain their trophic structure and …

Biotic interactions in aquatic communities are dominated by predation, and the distribution of
trophic link strengths in aquatic food webs crucially impacts their dynamics and stability …

The European Standard EN 14757 recommends gillnet mesh sizes that range from 5 to
55mm (knot-to-knot) for the standard monitoring of fish assemblages and suggests adding …

Angling catch records are frequently used to reveal fish population developments. It is
therefore important to understand the determinants of angling catches. This study focused …

Body size has been widely recognised as a key factor determining community structure in
ecosystems. We analysed size diversity patterns of phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish …