Intraspecific variation

Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems
Collective behaviour is common in bacteria, plants, and animals, and thus across ecosystems, from biofilms to cities. With collective …
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Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems
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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Quantifying the effects of intraspecific variation on predator feeding rates through nonlinear averaging
Temporal shifts in intraspecific and interspecific diet variation among 3 stream predators
Intraspecific variation is increasingly recognized as an important factor in ecological interactions that can exceed the role of …
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Temporal shifts in intraspecific and interspecific diet variation among 3 stream predators
The influence of prey predictability on the foraging behavior and movement of intertidal predators

Fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity of habitat and resources is thought to underlie niche variation in animal populations, with …
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The influence of prey predictability on the foraging behavior and movement of intertidal predators
State-structured species interactions and their consequences across levels of biological organization

A central challenge for ecology is to understand the dynamic nature of species interactions. A classic approach to community ecology …
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State-structured species interactions and their consequences across levels of biological organization
Candidate causes, consequences, and estimation of individual diet specialization

Diet variation among individuals within populations is widespread. Often diet dierences among individuals are attributable to obvious …
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Candidate causes, consequences, and estimation of individual diet specialization
The application of Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify individual diet specialization
Intraspecific variation in ecologically relevant traits is widespread. In generalist predators in particular, individual diet …
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The application of Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify individual diet specialization
Timescales alter the inferred strength and temporal consistency of intraspecific diet specialization
Many populations consist of individuals that differ substantially in their diets. Quantification of the magnitude and temporal …
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Timescales alter the inferred strength and temporal consistency of intraspecific diet specialization
Structure and mechanism of diet specialisation: testing models of individual variation in resource use with sea otters
Studies of consumer‐resource interactions suggest that individual diet specialisation is empirically widespread and theoretically …
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Structure and mechanism of diet specialisation: testing models of individual variation in resource use with sea otters
The Effect of Travel Loss on Evolutionarily Stable Distributions of Populations in Space
A key assumption of the ideal free distribution (IFD) is that there are no costs in moving between habitat patches. However, because …
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