Happy to share our recent research on the effects of #roads on European #foodwebs, where we show that road impacts extend beyond direct mortality, propagating across the entire #ecologicalnetwork of #speciesinteractions. We also identify critical areas where cascading effects are most pronounced and highlight the most vulnerable trophic groups.

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.70007

#biodiversity #biology #conservation #WildlifeConservation #ecologicalnetworks #ecology #nature
#BiodiversityCrisis

Mechanisms of coexistence are often un-intuitive. In a new Special Feature, Werner et al. explore species interactions across different environmental scenarios to bridge theoretical and empirical approaches to coexistence. Read now ahead of print! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733382

Ecosystems are complicated: how one species of ant replacing another may keep lions from killing zebras
#Ecosystems #SpeciesInteractions #AntsAndLions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/25/how-invasive-ants-are-impeding-lions-hunt

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-nature-chefs-scientists-food-making-species.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-04-nature-chefs-scientists-food-making-species.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1648742062580170767#m

Nature's chefs: Scientists propose food-making as means of understanding #speciesinteractions @ncstate https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad026/7115688 https://phys.org/news/2023-04-nature-chefs-scientists-food-making-species.html

I've put together a list of the links to my sites in case you want to find out more about how I use experiments and theory to understand how species interactions shape ecosystem stability and functioning.

https://linktr.ee/granjel

Does anyone know of datasets where multiple types of species interactions were measured in the same community? I can find plenty of food webs, plant-pollinator networks, etc, but no single community where, for example, both plant-pollinator and predator-prey interactions were measured.