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High variation in handling times confers 35-year stability to predator feeding rates despite altered prey abundances and apparent diet proportions
Historical resurveys of ecological communities are important for placing the structure of modern ecosystems in context. Rarely, …
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Grazer-resource behavior, interactions, and feedbacks control kelp-forest dynamics and stability
How the direct and indirect effects of species interactions cascade to affect community struc- ture, functioning, and stability is a …
Randell
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Geometric complexity and the information-theoretic comparison of functional-response models
The assessment of relative model performance using information criteria like AIC and BIC has become routine among functional-response …
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Stouffer
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The effects of formalin fixation and fluid storage on stable isotopes in rodent hair
Stable isotopes are increasingly being used to unlock the wealth of information contained in specimens preserved in museum collections. …
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DeJesus
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Terry
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The predictability of qualitative food web dynamics in response to extinction and invasion
Food webs are extraordinarily complex, containing myriad direct interactions and indirect effects. Determining how this network of …
Rockow
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Hidden layers of density dependence in consumer feeding rates
Functional responses relate a consumer’s feeding rates to variation in its abiotic and biotic environment, providing insight into …
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Quantifying the effects of intraspecific variation on predator feeding rates through nonlinear averaging
Theory suggests that intraspecific trait variation will alter species interaction strengths through nonlinear averaging when …
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Merhoff
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Systematic bias in studies of consumer functional responses
Functional responses are a cornerstone to our understanding of consumer-resource interactions, so how to best describe them using …
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Stouffer
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Trematode parasites exceed aquatic insect biomass in Oregon stream food webs
Although parasites are increasingly recognized for their ecosystem roles, it is often assumed that free-living organisms dominate …
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Layden
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Segui
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Falke
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Brant
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Food-web interaction strength distributions are conserved by greater variation between than within predator--prey pairs
Species interactions in food webs are usually recognized as dynamic, varying across species, space, and time because of biotic and …
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Falke
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Henderson
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