Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society…
2012
Knowledge of feeding rates is the basis to understand interaction strength and subsequently the stability of ecosystems and biodiversity. Feeding rates, as all biological rates, depend on consumer… (More)
We synthesise traditional unstructured food webs, allometric body size scaling, trait-based modelling, and physiologically structured modelling to provide a novel and ecologically relevant tool for… (More)
Jesper H. Andersen*, Karsten Dahl, Cordula Göke, Martin Hartvig, Ciarán Murray, Anna Rindorf, Henrik Skov, Morten Vinther and Samuli Korpinen 1 NIVA Denmark Water Research, Copenhagen, Denmark 2… (More)
The size of an individual organism is a key trait to characterize its physiology and feeding ecology. Size-based scaling laws may have a limited size range of validity or undergo a transition from… (More)
We employ size-based theoretical arguments to derive simple analytic predictions of ecological patterns and properties of natural communities: size-spectrum exponent, maximum trophic level, and… (More)
Keith Brander1*, Anna Neuheimer2, Ken Haste Andersen1, and Martin Hartvig1,3 Center for Ocean Life, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua) Technical University of Denmark Charlottenlund… (More)
Climate change affects ecological communities through its impact on the physiological performance of individuals. However, the population dynamic of species well inside their thermal niche is also… (More)
The purpose of this dataset was to compile adult and offspring size estimates for marine organisms. Adult and offspring size estimates of 408 species were compiled from the literature covering >17… (More)
Understanding the consequences of species loss in complex ecological communities is one of the great challenges in current biodiversity research. For a long time, this topic has been addressed by… (More)
Species with a large adult-offspring size ratio and a preferred predator-prey mass ratio undergo ontogenetic trophic niche shift(s) throughout life. Trophic interactions between such species vary… (More)