Search Results - "McCann, S"

Integrating food web diversity, structure and stability by Rooney, Neil, McCann, Kevin S.

“…Given the unprecedented rate of species extinctions facing the planet, understanding the causes and consequences of species diversity in ecosystems is of…”
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Who Said We Were Terrorists? Issues with Terrorism Data and Inclusion Criteria by McCann, Wesley S.

“…This article examines the reliability of "terrorism" classifications within the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) by looking at its inclusion criteria as well as…”
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Consistent role of weak and strong interactions in high- and low-diversity trophic food webs by Gellner, Gabriel, McCann, Kevin S.

“…The growing realization of a looming biodiversity crisis has inspired considerable progress in the quest to link biodiversity, structure and ecosystem…”
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Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism by McCann, Wesley S.

“…Only a few studies on biological terrorism have ever been conducted empirically. Many of these focus on CBRN terrorism as a whole, rather than biological…”
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Food Web Structure in Temporally-Forced Ecosystems by McMeans, Bailey C., McCann, Kevin S., Humphries, Murray, Rooney, Neil, Fisk, Aaron T.

“…Temporal variation characterizes many of Earth's ecosystems. Despite this, little is known about how food webs respond to regular variation in time, such as…”
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Quality of life: why most doctors don’t care? by McCann, S R

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Sampling bias is a challenge for quantifying specialization and network structure: lessons from a quantitative niche model by Fründ, Jochen, McCann, Kevin S., Williams, Neal M.

“…Network approaches have become a popular tool for understanding ecological complexity in a changing world. Many network descriptors relate directly or…”
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The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes by Hatton, Ian A., McCann, Kevin S., Fryxell, John M., Davies, T. Jonathan, Smerlak, Matteo, Sinclair, Anthony R. E., Loreau, Michel

“…Ecosystems exhibit surprising regularities in structure and function across terrestrial and aquatic biomes worldwide. We assembled a global data set for 2260…”
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A mechanistic theory for aquatic food chain length by Ward, Colette L., McCann, Kevin S.

“…Multiple hypotheses propose an ostensibly disparate array of drivers of food chain length (FCL), with contradictory support from natural settings. Here we…”
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Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse by MacDougall, A. S., McCann, K. S., Gellner, G., Turkington, R.

“…Persistent anthropogenic disturbance is shown simultaneously to drive plant species loss and stabilize some attributes of ecosystem function, analogous to a…”
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A Mechanistic Approach for Modeling Temperature‐Dependent Consumer‐Resource Dynamics by Vasseur, David A., McCann, Kevin S.

“…Paramount to our ability to manage and protect biological communities from impending changes in the environment is an understanding of how communities will…”
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On the prevalence and dynamics of inverted trophic pyramids and otherwise top‐heavy communities by McCauley, Douglas J., Gellner, Gabriel, Martinez, Neo D., Williams, Richard J., Sandin, Stuart A., Micheli, Fiorenza, Mumby, Peter J., McCann, Kevin S., Brose, Ulrich

“…Classically, biomass partitioning across trophic levels was thought to add up to a pyramidal distribution. Numerous exceptions have, however, been noted…”
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Evidence of indiscriminate fishing effects in one of the world’s largest inland fisheries by Ngor, Peng Bun, McCann, Kevin S., Grenouillet, Gaël, So, Nam, McMeans, Bailey C., Fraser, Evan, Lek, Sovan

“…While human impacts like fishing have altered marine food web composition and body size, the status of the world’s important tropical inland fisheries remains…”
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Potential oscillators and keystone modules in food webs by Kadoya, Taku, Gellner, Gabriel, McCann, Kevin S., Gravel, Dominique

“…Food web theory suggests that the placement of a weak interaction is critical such that under some conditions even one well‐placed weak interaction can…”
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dynamics of spatially coupled food webs by McCann, K.S, Rasmussen, J.B, Umbanhowar, J

“…The dynamics of ecological systems include a bewildering number of biotic interactions that unfold over a vast range of spatial scales. Here, employing simple…”
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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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Prediction of Lateral Ankle Sprains in Football Players Based on Clinical Tests and Body Mass Index by Gribble, Phillip A., Terada, Masafumi, Beard, Megan Q., Kosik, Kyle B., Lepley, Adam S., McCann, Ryan S., Pietrosimone, Brian G., Thomas, Abbey C.

“…Background: The lateral ankle sprain (LAS) is the most common injury suffered in sports, especially in football. While suggested in some studies, a predictive…”
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Demonstration of 100 Gbps coherent free-space optical communications at LEO tracking rates by Walsh, Shane M., Karpathakis, Skevos F. E., McCann, Ayden S., Dix-Matthews, Benjamin P., Frost, Alex M., Gozzard, David R., Gravestock, Charles T., Schediwy, Sascha W.

“…Free-space optical communications are poised to alleviate the data-flow bottleneck experienced by spacecraft as traditional radio frequencies reach their…”
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Effects of differential habitat warming on complex communities by Tunney, Tyler D., McCann, Kevin S., Lester, Nigel P., Shuter, Brian J.

“…Food webs unfold across a mosaic of micro and macro habitats, with each habitat coupled by mobile consumers that behave in response to local environmental…”
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Consumer trophic positions respond variably to seasonally fluctuating environments by McMeans, Bailey C., Kadoya, Taku, Pool, Thomas K., Holtgrieve, Gordon W., Lek, Sovan, Kong, Heng, Winemiller, Kirk, Elliott, Vittoria, Rooney, Neil, Laffaille, Pascal, McCann, Kevin S.

“…The effects of environmental seasonality on food web structure have been notoriously understudied in empirical ecology. Here, we focus on seasonal changes in…”
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