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Functional Motifs in Foodwebs and Networks
Melanie Habermann, Ashkaan K. Fahimipour, Justin D. Yeakel +1
When studying a complex system it is often useful to think of the system as a network of interacting units. One can then ask if some properties of the entire network are already ex…
Coarse-Graining Cascades Within Food Webs
Justin D. Yeakel
Quantifying population dynamics is a fundamental challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology, particularly for species that are cryptic, microscopic, or extinct. Traditional appr…
Bioenergetic trophic trade-offs determine mass-dependent extinction thresholds across the Cenozoic
Justin D. Yeakel, Matthew C. Hutchinson, Christopher P. Kempes +3
Body size drives the energetic demands of organisms, constraining trophic interactions between species and playing a significant role in shaping the feasibility of species' populat…
On the dynamics of mortality and the ephemeral nature of mammalian megafauna
Taran Rallings, Christopher P. Kempes, Justin D. Yeakel
Energy flow through consumer-resource interactions is largely determined by body size. Allometric relationships govern the dynamics of populations by impacting rates of reproductio…
Caching in or falling back at the Sevilleta
Justin D. Yeakel, Uttam Bhat, Seth D. Newsome
Foraging in uncertain environments requires balancing the risks associated with finding alternative resources against potential gains. In aridland environments characterized by ext…
Diverse interactions and ecosystem engineering stabilize community assembly
Justin D. Yeakel, Mathias M. Pires, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar +4
The complexity of an ecological community can be distilled into a network, where diverse interactions connect species in a web of dependencies. Species interact not only with each…
Scaling of the risk landscape drives optimal life history strategies and the evolution of grazing
Uttam Bhat, Christopher P. Kempes, Justin D. Yeakel
Consumers face numerous risks that can be minimized by incorporating different life-history strategies. How much and when a consumer adds to its energetic reserves or invests in re…
Eco-evolutionary dynamics and collective dispersal: implications for salmon metapopulation robustness
Justin D. Yeakel, Jean P. Gibert, Peter A. H. Westley +1
The spatial dispersal of individuals is known to play an important role in the dynamics of populations, and is central to metapopulation theory. At the same time, local adaptation…
Revealing biases in the sampling of ecological interaction networks
Marcus A. M. de Aguiar, Erica A. Newman, Mathias M. Pires +8
The structure of ecological interactions is commonly understood through analyses of interaction networks. However, these analyses may be sensitive to sampling biases in both the in…
The dynamics of starvation and recovery
Justin D. Yeakel, Christopher P. Kempes, Sidney Redner
The eco-evolutionary dynamics of species are fundamentally linked to the energetic constraints of its constituent individuals. Of particular importance is the interplay between rep…
Exploring the isotopic niche: isotopic variance, physiological incorporation, and the temporal dynamics of foraging
Justin D. Yeakel, Uttam Bhat, Emma A. Elliott Smith +1
Consumer foraging behaviors are dynamic, changing in response to prey availability, seasonality, competition, and even the consumer's physiological state. The isotopic composition…
Collapse of an ecological network in Ancient Egypt
Justin D. Yeakel, Mathias M. Pires, Lars Rudolf +4
The dynamics of ecosystem collapse are fundamental to determining how and why biological communities change through time, as well as the potential effects of extinctions on ecosyst…
Compensatory dynamics of fish recruitment illuminated by functional elasticities
Justin D. Yeakel, Marc Mangel
Models of Stock Recruitment Relationships (SRRs) are often used to predict fish population dynamics. Commonly used SRRs include the Ricker, Beverton-Holt, and Cushing functional fo…
The impact of climate change on the structure of Pleistocene mammoth steppe food webs
Justin D. Yeakel, Paulo R. Guimaraes, Herve Bocherens +1
Species interactions shape predator-prey networks, impacting community structure and, potentially, ecological dynamics. It is likely that global climatic perturbations that occur o…
Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics
Justin D. Yeakel, Dirk Stiefs, Mark Novak +1
Over the past years several authors have used the approach of generalized modeling to study the dynamics of food chains and food webs. Generalized models come close to the efficien…