Search Results - "Petchey, Owen"

Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability by Pennekamp, Frank, Pontarp, Mikael, Tabi, Andrea, Altermatt, Florian, Alther, Roman, Choffat, Yves, Fronhofer, Emanuel A., Ganesanandamoorthy, Pravin, Garnier, Aurélie, Griffiths, Jason I., Greene, Suzanne, Horgan, Katherine, Massie, Thomas M., Mächler, Elvira, Palamara, Gian Marco, Seymour, Mathew, Petchey, Owen L.

“…Losses and gains in species diversity affect ecological stability 1 – 7 and the sustainability of ecosystem functions and services 8 – 13 . Experiments and…”
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Navigating the complexity of ecological stability by Donohue, Ian, Hillebrand, Helmut, Montoya, José M., Petchey, Owen L., Pimm, Stuart L., Fowler, Mike S., Healy, Kevin, Jackson, Andrew L., Lurgi, Miguel, McClean, Deirdre, O'Connor, Nessa E., O'Gorman, Eoin J., Yang, Qiang

“…Human actions challenge nature in many ways. Ecological responses are ineluctably complex, demanding measures that describe them succinctly. Collectively,…”
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Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward by Petchey, Owen L, Gaston, Kevin J

“…Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we…”
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Mapping functional diversity from remotely sensed morphological and physiological forest traits by Schneider, Fabian D., Morsdorf, Felix, Schmid, Bernhard, Petchey, Owen L., Hueni, Andreas, Schimel, David S., Schaepman, Michael E.

“…Assessing functional diversity from space can help predict productivity and stability of forest ecosystems at global scale using biodiversity–ecosystem…”
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Forecasting in the face of ecological complexity: Number and strength of species interactions determine forecast skill in ecological communities by Daugaard, Uriah, Munch, Stephan B., Inauen, David, Pennekamp, Frank, Petchey, Owen L.

“…The potential for forecasting the dynamics of ecological systems is currently unclear, with contrasting opinions regarding its feasibility due to ecological…”
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Warming can destabilize predator–prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II by Daugaard, Uriah, Petchey, Owen L., Pennekamp, Frank, O'Gorman, Eoin

“…The potential for climate change and temperature shifts to affect community stability remains relatively unknown. One mechanism by which temperature may affect…”
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Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems by Le Moigne, Alizée, Randegger, Florian, Gupta, Anubhav, Petchey, Owen L., Pernthaler, Jakob

“…Stochasticity is a major cause of compositional β‐diversity in communities that develop under similar environmental conditions. Such communities may exhibit…”
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The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants by Petchey, Owen L., Pontarp, Mikael, Massie, Thomas M., Kéfi, Sonia, Ozgul, Arpat, Weilenmann, Maja, Palamara, Gian Marco, Altermatt, Florian, Matthews, Blake, Levine, Jonathan M., Childs, Dylan Z., McGill, Brian J., Schaepman, Michael E., Schmid, Bernhard, Spaak, Piet, Beckerman, Andrew P., Pennekamp, Frank, Pearse, Ian S.

“…Forecasts of ecological dynamics in changing environments are increasingly important, and are available for a plethora of variables, such as species abundance…”
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Ecological opportunity and predator–prey interactions: linking eco-evolutionary processes and diversification in adaptive radiations by Pontarp, Mikael, Petchey, Owen L.

“…Much of life's diversity has arisen through ecological opportunity and adaptive radiations, but the mechanistic underpinning of such diversification is not…”
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Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change by Hong, Pubin, Schmid, Bernhard, De Laender, Frederik, Eisenhauer, Nico, Zhang, Xingwen, Chen, Haozhen, Craven, Dylan, De Boeck, Hans J., Hautier, Yann, Petchey, Owen L., Reich, Peter B., Steudel, Bastian, Striebel, Maren, Thakur, Madhav P., Wang, Shaopeng, Mori, Akira

“…Three decades of research have demonstrated that biodiversity can promote the functioning of ecosystems. Yet, it is unclear whether the positive effects of…”
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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions by Oliver, Tom H., Heard, Matthew S., Isaac, Nick J.B., Roy, David B., Procter, Deborah, Eigenbrod, Felix, Freckleton, Rob, Hector, Andy, Orme, C. David L., Petchey, Owen L., Proença, Vânia, Raffaelli, David, Suttle, K. Blake, Mace, Georgina M., Martín-López, Berta, Woodcock, Ben A., Bullock, James M.

“…Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much…”
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Predicting the effects of multiple global change drivers on microbial communities remains challenging by Suleiman, Marcel, Daugaard, Uriah, Choffat, Yves, Zheng, Xue, Petchey, Owen L.

“…Microbial communities in many ecosystems are facing a broad range of global change drivers, such as nutrient enrichment, chemical pollution, and temperature…”
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Universal temperature and body-mass scaling of feeding rates by Rall, Björn C., Brose, Ulrich, Hartvig, Martin, Kalinkat, Gregor, Schwarzmüller, Florian, Vucic-Pestic, Olivera, Petchey, Owen L.

“…Knowledge of feeding rates is the basis to understand interaction strength and subsequently the stability of ecosystems and biodiversity. Feeding rates, as all…”
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Co-occurrence history increases ecosystem stability and resilience in experimental plant communities by van Moorsel, Sofia J., Hahl, Terhi, Petchey, Owen L., Ebeling, Anne, Eisenhauer, Nico, Schmid, Bernhard, Wagg, Cameron

“…Understanding factors that maintain ecosystem stability is critical in the face of environmental change. Experiments simulating species loss from grassland…”
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Loss of predator species, not intermediate consumers, triggers rapid and dramatic extinction cascades by Donohue, Ian, Petchey, Owen L., Kéfi, Sonia, Génin, Alexandre, Jackson, Andrew L., Yang, Qiang, O'Connor, Nessa E.

“…Ecological networks are tightly interconnected, such that loss of a single species can trigger additional species extinctions. Theory predicts that such…”
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Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development by Norberg, Jon, Blenckner, Thorsten, Cornell, Sarah E., Petchey, Owen L., Hillebrand, Helmut, Gurevitch, Jessica

“…While environmental science, and ecology in particular, is working to provide better understanding to base sustainable decisions on, the way scientific…”
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Reflecting on the symmetry of ecosystem tipping points: The influence of trait dissimilarity and environmental driver dynamics in a simple ecosystem model by Bärtschi, Pascal, Petchey, Owen L.

“…Our understanding of the similarity in trajectories of ecosystem changes during different directions of environmental change is limited. For example, do the…”
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On the dimensionality of ecological stability by Donohue, Ian, Petchey, Owen L., Montoya, José M., Jackson, Andrew L., McNally, Luke, Viana, Mafalda, Healy, Kevin, Lurgi, Miguel, O'Connor, Nessa E., Emmerson, Mark C.

“…Ecological stability is touted as a complex and multifaceted concept, including components such as variability, resistance, resilience, persistence and…”
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Warming and top predator loss drive ecosystem multifunctionality by Antiqueira, Pablo Augusto P., Petchey, Owen L., Romero, Gustavo Quevedo, Courchamp, Franck

“…Global change affects ecosystem functioning both directly by modifications in physicochemical processes, and indirectly, via changes in biotic metabolism and…”
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Body-size distributions and size-spectra: universal indicators of ecological status? by Petchey, Owen L., Belgrano, Andrea

“…The sizes of individual organisms, rather than their taxonomy, are used to inform management and conservation in some aquatic ecosystems. The European Science…”
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