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Effects of Predator Hunting Mode on Grassland Ecosystem Function by Schmitz, Oswald J

“…The way predators control their prey populations is determined by the interplay between predator hunting mode and prey antipredator behavior. It is uncertain,…”
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Climate Change, Nutrition, and Bottom-Up and Top-Down Food Web Processes by Rosenblatt, Adam E., Schmitz, Oswald J.

“…Climate change ecology has focused on climate effects on trophic interactions through the lenses of temperature effects on organismal physiology and…”
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Evolution of Well-Being and Happiness After Increases in Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables by Mujcic, Redzo, J Oswald, Andrew

“…To explore whether improvements in psychological well-being occur after increases in fruit and vegetable consumption. We examined longitudinal food diaries of…”
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Physiological Stress as a Fundamental Mechanism Linking Predation to Ecosystem Functioning by Hawlena, Dror, Schmitz, Oswald J.

“…We present a framework to explain how prey stress responses to predation can resolve context dependency in ecosystem properties and functions such as food…”
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Herbivore physiological response to predation risk and implications for ecosystem nutrient dynamics by Hawlena, Dror, Schmitz, Oswald J.

“…The process of nutrient transfer through an ecosystem is an important determinant of production, food-chain length, and species diversity. The general view is…”
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Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A by Oswald, Andrew J, Wu, Stephen

“…A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to…”
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Invertebrate functional traits and terrestrial nutrient cycling: Insights from a global meta‐analysis by McCary, Matthew A., Schmitz, Oswald J.

“…Functional traits are useful for characterizing variation in community and ecosystem dynamics. Most advances in trait‐based ecology to date centre on plant…”
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Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle by Schmitz, Oswald J, Wilmers, Christopher C, Leroux, Shawn J, Doughty, Christopher E, Atwood, Trisha B, Galetti, Mauro, Davies, Andrew B, Goetz, Scott J

“…Predicting and managing the global carbon cycle requires scientific understanding of ecosystem processes that control carbon uptake and storage. It is…”
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Fearful effects on ecological competitors by Schmitz, Oswald J

“…[...]multiple species can coexist because they have complementary niches, with the exact number of coexisting species set by the breadth of each species' niche…”
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Predators and rainfall control spatial biogeochemistry in a landscape of fear by Schmitz, Oswald J.

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Herbivory from Individuals to Ecosystems by Schmitz, Oswald J

“…Herbivores not only consume resources, but they are resources for other consumers. Consequently, they have much potential to mediate effects that cascade up…”
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Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores by Ripple, William J., Estes, James A., Beschta, Robert L., Wilmers, Christopher C., Ritchie, Euan G., Hebblewhite, Mark, Berger, Joel, Elmhagen, Bodil, Letnic, Mike, Nelson, Michael P., Schmitz, Oswald J., Smith, Douglas W., Wallach, Arian D., Wirsing, Aaron J.

“…Large carnivores face serious threats and are experiencing massive declines in their populations and geographic ranges around the world. We highlight how these…”
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Landscapes shaped from the top down: predicting cascading predator effects on spatial biogeochemistry by Monk, Julia D., Schmitz, Oswald J.

“…Spatial heterogeneity in ecological systems can result from animal‐driven top–down processes, but despite some theoretical attention, the emergence of spatial…”
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Predator control of ecosystem nutrient dynamics by Schmitz, Oswald J, Hawlena, Dror, Trussell, Geoffrey C

“…Predators are predominantly valued for their ability to control prey, as indicators of high levels of biodiversity and as tourism attractions. This view,…”
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Food Webs and Ecosystems: Linking Species Interactions to the Carbon Cycle by Schmitz, Oswald J, Leroux, Shawn J

“…All species within ecosystems contribute to regulating carbon cycling because of their functional integration into food webs. Yet carbon modeling and…”
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Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions by Orrick, Kaggie, Dove, Michael, Schmitz, Oswald J.

“…Conservation science requires a balance of social and ecological perspectives to understand human–wildlife interactions. We look for an integrative…”
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Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations by Macchia, Lucía, Oswald, Andrew J.

“…Physical pain is one of the most severe of human experiences. It is thus one of the most important to understand. This paper reports the first cross-country…”
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Microbial stoichiometry overrides biomass as a regulator of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling by Buchkowski, Robert W, Schmitz, Oswald J, Bradford, Mark A

“…Understanding the role of soil microbial communities in coupled carbon and nitrogen cycles has become an area of great interest as we strive to understand how…”
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Predators affect competitors’ coexistence through fear effects by Schmitz, Oswald J.

“…Predators are often thought to structure ecological communities by consuming competitively dominant species, which promotes the coexistence of species. But an…”
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Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle? by Blanchflower, David G., Oswald, Andrew J.

“…We present evidence that psychological well-being is U-shaped through life. A difficulty with research on this issue is that there are likely to be omitted…”
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