Search Results - "DeLong, John P"

Phenotypic variation explains food web structural patterns by Gibert, Jean P., DeLong, John P.

“…Food webs (i.e., networks of species and their feeding interactions) share multiple structural features across ecosystems. The factors explaining such…”
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Temperature alters the shape of predator-prey cycles through effects on underlying mechanisms by DeLong, John P, Lyon, Shelby

“…Predicting the effects of climate warming on the dynamics of ecological systems requires understanding how temperature influences birth rates, death rates and…”
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Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life by DeLong, John P., Okie, Jordan G., Moses, Melanie E., Sibly, Richard M., Brown, James H.

“…The diversification of life involved enormous increases in size and complexity. The evolutionary transitions from prokaryotes to unicellular eukaryotes to…”
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A bioenergetic framework for the temperature dependence of trophic interactions by Gilbert, Benjamin, Tunney, Tyler D., McCann, Kevin S., DeLong, John P., Vasseur, David A., Savage, Van, Shurin, Jonathan B., Dell, Anthony I., Barton, Brandon T., Harley, Christopher D.G., Kharouba, Heather M., Kratina, Pavel, Blanchard, Julia L., Clements, Christopher, Winder, Monika, Greig, Hamish S., O'Connor, Mary I.

“…Changing temperature can substantially shift ecological communities by altering the strength and stability of trophic interactions. Because many ecological…”
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Temperature alters food web body-size structure by Gibert, Jean P., DeLong, John P.

“…The increased temperature associated with climate change may have important effects on body size and predator–prey interactions. The consequences of these…”
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Socio-Economic Instability and the Scaling of Energy Use with Population Size by DeLong, John P, Burger, Oskar

“…The size of the human population is relevant to the development of a sustainable world, yet the forces setting growth or declines in the human population are…”
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Ecological pleiotropy and indirect effects alter the potential for evolutionary rescue by DeLong, John P., Belmaker, Jonathan

“…Invading predators can negatively affect naïve prey populations due to a lack of evolved defenses. Many species therefore may be at risk of extinction due to…”
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Temperature and predators as interactive drivers of community properties by DeLong, John P., Coblentz, Kyle E., Uiterwaal, Stella F., Akwani, Chika, Salsbery, Miranda E.

“…The effects of warming on ecological communities emerge from a range of potentially asymmetric impacts on individual physiology and development. Understanding…”
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Towards an integrative view of virus phenotypes by DeLong, John P., Al-Sammak, Maitham A., Al-Ameeli, Zeina T., Dunigan, David D., Edwards, Kyle F., Fuhrmann, Jeffry J., Gleghorn, Jason P., Li, Hanqun, Haramoto, Kona, Harrison, Amelia O., Marston, Marcia F., Moore, Ryan M., Polson, Shawn W., Ferrell, Barbra D., Salsbery, Miranda E., Schvarcz, Christopher R., Shirazi, Jasmine, Steward, Grieg F., Van Etten, James L., Wommack, K. Eric

“…Understanding how phenotypes emerge from genotypes is a foundational goal in biology. As challenging as this task is when considering cellular life, it is…”
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Size-dependent predation and correlated life history traits alter eco-evolutionary dynamics and selection for faster individual growth by DeLong, John P., Luhring, Thomas M.

“…Age at maturation is a key life history trait influencing individual fitness, population age structure, and ecological interactions. We investigated the…”
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Mutual interference is common and mostly intermediate in magnitude by DeLong, John P, Vasseur, David A

“…BACKGROUND: Interference competition occurs when access to resources is negatively affected by the presence of other individuals. Within a species or…”
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Stoichiometry and Life-History Interact to Determine the Magnitude of Cross-Ecosystem Element and Biomass Fluxes by Luhring, Thomas M, DeLong, John P, Semlitsch, Raymond D

“…Ecosystems are linked through the transfer of materials and energy. Studies examining material fluxes across habitat boundaries frequently quantify…”
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How fast is fast? Eco‐evolutionary dynamics and rates of change in populations and phenotypes by DeLong, John P., Forbes, Valery E., Galic, Nika, Gibert, Jean P., Laport, Robert G., Phillips, Joseph S., Vavra, Janna M.

“…It is increasingly recognized that evolution may occur in ecological time. It is not clear, however, how fast evolution – or phenotypic change more generally –…”
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The rate-size trade-off structures intraspecific variation in Daphnia ambigua life history parameters by DeLong, John P, Hanley, Torrance C

“…The identification of trade-offs is necessary for understanding the evolution and maintenance of diversity. Here we employ the supply-demand (SD) body size…”
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Functional responses are maximized at intermediate temperatures by Uiterwaal, Stella F., DeLong, John P.

“…Functional responses describe how consumer foraging rates change with resource density. Despite extensive research looking at the factors underlying foraging…”
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Trade‐offs between morphology and thermal niches mediate adaptation in response to competing selective pressures by Uiterwaal, Stella F., Lagerstrom, Ian T., Luhring, Thomas M., Salsbery, Miranda E., DeLong, John P.

“…The effects of climate change—such as increased temperature variability and novel predators—rarely happen in isolation, but it is unclear how organisms cope…”
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Coexistence via resource partitioning fails to generate an increase in community function by DeLong, John P, Vasseur, David A

“…Classic ecological theory suggests that resource partitioning facilitates the coexistence of species by reducing inter-specific competition. A byproduct of…”
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Detecting the Signature of Body Mass Evolution in the Broad-Scale Architecture of Food Webs by DeLong, John P

“…AbstractBody mass-based links between predator and prey are fundamental to the architecture of food webs. These links determine who eats whom across trophic…”
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Population Stability, Cooperation, and the Invasibility of the Human Species by Hamilton, Marcus J., Burger, Oskar, DeLong, John P., Walker, Robert S., Moses, Melanie E., Brown, James H.

“…The biogeographic expansion of modern humans out of Africa began ≈50,000 years ago. This expansion resulted in the colonization of most of the land area and…”
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Current demographics suggest future energy supplies will be inadequate to slow human population growth by DeLong, John P, Burger, Oskar, Hamilton, Marcus J

“…Influential demographic projections suggest that the global human population will stabilize at about 9-10 billion people by mid-century. These projections rest…”
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