Observational approach

High variation in handling times confers 35-year stability to predator feeding rates despite community change
Historical resurveys of ecological communities are important for placing the structure of modern ecosystems in context. Rarely, …
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High variation in handling times confers 35-year stability to predator feeding rates despite community change
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
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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Food-web interaction strength distributions are conserved by greater variation between than within predator--prey pairs
What drives interaction strengths in complex food webs? A test with feeding rates of a generalist stream predator
Describing the mechanisms that drive variation in species interaction strengths is central to understanding, predicting, and managing …
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What drives interaction strengths in complex food webs? A test with feeding rates of a generalist stream predator
Bayesian characterization of uncertainty in species interaction strengths
Considerable effort has been devoted to the estimation of species interaction strengths. This effort has focused primarily on …
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Bayesian characterization of uncertainty in species interaction strengths
Quantifying predator dependence in the functional response of generalist predators
A long‐standing debate concerns how functional responses are best described. Theory suggests that ratio dependence is consistent with …
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Quantifying predator dependence in the functional response of generalist predators
Using Survival Models to Estimate Invertebrate Prey Identification Times in a Generalist Stream Fish
Estimates of predator feeding rates are important for understanding trophic dynamics. One common method for quantifying feeding rates …
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Using Survival Models to Estimate Invertebrate Prey Identification Times in a Generalist Stream Fish
Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: intraguild predation theory and the structure and strength of species interactions
Intraguild predation theory centres on two predictions: (i) for an omnivore and an intermediate predator (IG-prey) to coexist on shared …
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Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: intraguild predation theory and the structure and strength of species interactions
Estimating interaction strengths in nature: experimental support for an observational approach
The complexity of food webs poses a significant hurdle for our growing understanding of the structure and dynamics of ecological …
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Estimating interaction strengths in nature: experimental support for an observational approach
Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs
Efforts to estimate the strength of species interactions in species‐rich, reticulate food webs have been hampered by the multitude of …
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Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs