Body size in ecological networks.

By G. Woodward, B. Ebenman, M. Emmerson, J. M. Montoya, J. Olesen, A. Valido, P. Warren. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology

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Climate warming and ectotherm body size – from individual physiology to community ecology (2013, background): “Shifts in organism body sizes or population size spectra can have important consequences for ecosystem functioning and thus the services ecosystems provide for humans (Woodward et al. 2005; Petchey & Belgrano 2010).”
Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning (2009, background): “…consequences for the higher trophic levels that feed upon detritivores and microbial decomposers, especially as many of these species are largely dependent upon detrital pathways for their own secondary production (Moore et al., 2004; Woodward, Speirs & Hildrew, 2005b; Woodward et al., 2005a).”
Projected climate change and the changing biogeography of coastal Mediterranean fishes (2013, background): “In addition, body size is considered to be a ‘synthetic’ functional trait (Woodward et al., 2005), i.e. it directly influences the physiology and ecology of organisms such as metabolic rate, growth and mortality, clutch size, egg mass, age at first maturity, survivorship (Hildrew & Townsend, 2007),…”
Effects of ecological compensation meadows on arthropod diversity in adjacent intensively managed grassland (2010, background): “The observed positive relationship between body size and decay distance is predicted by allometric scaling laws (Peters, 1986; Woodward et al., 2005).”
Digital zooplankton image analysis using the ZooScan integrated system (2010, background): “Hence, because body size captures so many aspects of ecosystem function, it can be used to synthesize a suite of co-varying traits into a single dimen-sion (Woodward et al ., 2005).”
Traits explain community disassembly and trophic contraction following experimental environmental change (2012, methodology): “Body size as a general morphological trait can predict species loss and be related to trophic transfer efficiency, as it is often correlated with many other functional traits and demographic processes (Woodward et al., 2005).”
The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization (2020, background): “In predator-prey interactions, the larger the predator, the larger the set of prey they usually consume, leading to heterogeneity in the number of interactions across species (Owen-Smith & Mills 2008) and in interaction strengths (Woodward et al. 2005).”
Biogeographical region and environmental conditions drive functional traits of estuarine fish assemblages worldwide (2017, background): “Diet is related to body size due to metabolic, physiological and ecological reasons (Kulbicki et al., 2015; Woodward et al., 2005).”
The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration (2013, background): “These authors clearly work on a variety of topics, but they appear to also have a common focus on traditional community networks like food webs and pollination networks (Woodward et al. 2005, Woodward et al. 2008, Martinez 1991, Williams and Martinez 2000, Memmott 2009).”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, methodology): “…of this graphical method to visualise entire food webs (Cohen et al., 2003), allometric scaling have been used extensively to visualise both aquatic webs (e.g. Woodward et al., 2005) as terrestrial webs (e.g. Hechinger et al., 2011) with either log(N) or log(M) as independent predictors.”