Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity

Moran N, Wong BBM, Thompson RM (2017)
Oikos 126(7): 917-930.

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Moran, NicholasUniBi ; Wong, Bob B. M.; Thompson, Ross M.
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Recent studies into community level dynamics are revealing processes and patterns that underpin the biodiversity and complexity of natural ecosystems. Theoretical food webs have suggested that species‐rich and highly complex communities are inherently unstable, but incorporating certain characteristics of empirical communities, such as allometric body size scaling and non‐random interaction distributions, have been shown to enhance stability and facilitate species coexistence. Incorporating individual level traits and variability into food web theory is seen as a future pathway for this research and our growing knowledge of individual behaviours, in the form of temperament (or personality) traits, can inform the direction of this research. Temperament traits are consistent differences in behaviour between individuals, which are repeatable across time and/or across ecological contexts, such as aggressive or boldness behaviours that commonly differ between individuals of the same species. These traits, under the framework of behavioural reaction norms, show both individual consistency as well as contextual and phenotypic plasticity. This is likely to contribute significantly to the effects of individual trait variability and adaptive trophic behaviour on the structure and dynamics of food webs, which are apparently stabilizing. Exploring the role of temperament in the context of community ecology is a unique opportunity for cross‐pollination between ecological fields, and can provide new insights into community stability and biodiversity.
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Zeitschriftentitel
Oikos
Band
126
Ausgabe
7
Seite(n)
917-930
ISSN
0030-1299
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2930568

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Moran N, Wong BBM, Thompson RM. Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity. Oikos. 2017;126(7):917-930.
Moran, N., Wong, B. B. M., & Thompson, R. M. (2017). Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity. Oikos, 126(7), 917-930. doi:10.1111/oik.03642
Moran, Nicholas, Wong, Bob B. M., and Thompson, Ross M. 2017. “Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity”. Oikos 126 (7): 917-930.
Moran, N., Wong, B. B. M., and Thompson, R. M. (2017). Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity. Oikos 126, 917-930.
Moran, N., Wong, B.B.M., & Thompson, R.M., 2017. Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity. Oikos, 126(7), p 917-930.
N. Moran, B.B.M. Wong, and R.M. Thompson, “Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity”, Oikos, vol. 126, 2017, pp. 917-930.
Moran, N., Wong, B.B.M., Thompson, R.M.: Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity. Oikos. 126, 917-930 (2017).
Moran, Nicholas, Wong, Bob B. M., and Thompson, Ross M. “Weaving animal temperament into food webs: implications for biodiversity”. Oikos 126.7 (2017): 917-930.
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