1. Individual-and population-level variation in body size and growth often correlates with many fitness traits. Predation and food availability are expected to affect body size and growth as important ...

Climate change will alter the forces of predation and competition in temperate ectotherm food webs. This may increase local extinction rates, change the fate of invasions and impede species ...

Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers examined over 125 studies testing local adaptation in over ...

Required reading. Marquis and Whelan. 1994. Insectivorous birds increase growth of white oak through consumption of leaf-chewing insects. Ecology 75: 2007-2014. 2) Perturbation (system never reaches ...