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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…