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Untangling the roles of parasites in food webs with generative network models
Abigail Z. Jacobs, Jennifer A. Dunne, Cristopher Moore +1
Food webs represent the set of consumer-resource interactions among a set of species that co-occur in a habitat, but most food web studies have omitted parasites and their interact…
How large should whales be?
Aaron Clauset
The evolution and distribution of species body sizes for terrestrial mammals is well-explained by a macroevolutionary tradeoff between short-term selective advantages and long-term…
The evolution and distribution of species body size
Aaron Clauset, Douglas H. Erwin
The distribution of species body size within taxonomic groups exhibits a heavy right-tail extending over many orders of magnitude, where most species are significantly larger than…
How many species have mass M?
Aaron Clauset, David J. Schwab, Sidney Redner
Within large taxonomic assemblages, the number of species with adult body mass M is characterized by a broad but asymmetric distribution, with the largest mass being orders of magn…
Evolutionary Model of Species Body Mass Diversification
Aaron Clauset, Sidney Redner
We present a quantitative model for the biological evolution of species body masses within large groups of related species, e.g., terrestrial mammals, in which body mass M evolves…