Publications
Check out all the publications from the EcoSAGE research group
Warming indirectly simplifies food webs through effects on apex predators
The latest research from the Hengill geothermal valley in Iceland published in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows how warming and apex fish predators can interact to induce a trophic cascade in freshwater streams, altering biomass of invertebrates and algal biofilms, ecosystem functioning, and food web properties
Trophic structuring of modularity alters energy flow through marine food webs
Patrick Keith’s new paper in Frontiers in Marine Science presents two overarching ways in which species are organised into modules in four high resolution marine food webs, and illustrates how functional traits such as body size, mobility, and foraging habitat can predict module membership of different species
How many predator guts are required to predict trophic interactions?
In this contribution to the journal Food Webs, Anubhav Gupta illustrates the utility of the Allometric Diet Breadth Model for predicting trophic interactions in ecological networks, and demonstrates an approac for determining how many individual diets you need to process to adequately parameterise this model for your system
Machine learning ecological networks (Perspective in Science)
A new paper in Science on the collapse of terrestrial mammal food webs since the Late Pleistocene demonstrates the power of deep-learning tools for constructing ancient interaction networks. This perspective discusses applications to current and future food webs.
Quantifying the heterarchical structures of complex systems
In her paper in Ecology & Society, Amy Shurety combines metrics of modularity and hierarchy to describe the heterarchical structure of networks, showing wide variation across food webs, infrastructure, and social networks.
Metabolic plasticity can amplify ecosystem responses to global warming
A new paper in Nature Communications shows how chronic exposure to warmer environments can alter the size- and temperature-dependence of metabolic rate, with major implications for carbon emissions from ecosystems under global warming.
Insights from twenty years of comparative research in Pacific Large Ocean States.
Comparative research can identify trends within social-ecological systems providing key insights for both environmental and developmental research. This paper aims to summarize existing research and identify potential gaps and new directions within comparative environmental and developmental research on Pacific Large Ocean States.
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