Ontogenetic dietary shifts (ODSs), the changes in diet utilisation occurring over the life span
of an individual consumer, are widespread in the animal kingdom. Understanding ODSs …

Almost all organisms on Earth exhibit ontogenetic niche shifts, which causes great
phenotypic variation among individuals and is thus considered to critically mediate …

A major question in ecology is how often competing species evolve to reduce competitive
interactions and facilitate coexistence. One untested route for a reduction in competitive …

Community ecology is traditionally species-based and assumes that species comprise
identical individuals. However, intraspecific variation is ubiquitous in nature because of …

Body size exerts a critical influence on predator–prey interactions and is therefore crucial for
understanding the structure and dynamics of food webs. Currently, predator–prey mass ratio …

Even though individual life history is the focus of much ecological research, its importance
for the dynamics and structure of ecological communities is unclear, or is it a topic of much …

Organisms typically change their diets ontogenetically. Recent studies have shown that an
ontogenetic diet shift undermines the resilience of stage‐structured food webs. Here, we …

Specialist species are more vulnerable to environmental change than generalist species.
For species with ontogenetic niche shifts, specialization may occur at a particular life stage …

Ecological interactions determine the structure and dynamics of communities and their
responses to the environment. Understanding the community-level effects of ecological …

The Levins model is a classical but still widely used metapopulation model that describes
temporal changes in the regional abundance of a species by extinction and colonization of …