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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…
Spatial Structure Supports Diversity in Prebiotic Autocatalytic Chemical Ecosystems
Alex M. Plum, Christopher P. Kempes, Zhen Peng +1
Autocatalysis is thought to have played an important role in the earliest stages of the origin of life. An autocatalytic cycle (AC) is a set of reactions that results in stoichiome…
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…
Dynamics of growth, death, and resource competition in sessile organisms
Edward D. Lee, Christopher P. Kempes, Geoffrey B. West
Population-level scaling in ecological systems arises from individual growth and death with competitive constraints. We build on a minimal dynamical model of metabolic growth where…
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…
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…
Predicting Whole Forest Structure, Primary Productivity, and Biomass Density From Maximum Tree Size and Resource Limitations
Christopher P. Kempes, Sungho Choi, William Dooris +1
In the face of uncertain biological response to climate change and the many critiques concerning model complexity it is increasingly important to develop predictive mechanistic fra…