BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES
Trophic information—who eats whom—and species' body sizes are two of the most basic descriptions necessary to understand community structure as well as ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Consumer–resource body size ratios between predators and their prey, and parasitoids and their hosts, hav...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298772 2023-05-15T13:53:19+02:00 BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES Brose, Ulrich Cushing, Lara Berlow, Eric L. Jonsson, Tomas Banasek-Richter, Carolin Louis-Felix Bersier Blanchard, Julia L. Brey, Thomas Carpenter, Stephen R. Marie-France Cattin Blandenier Cohen, Joel E. Dawah, Hassan Ali Dell, Tony Francois Edwards Harper-Smith, Sarah Jacob, Ute Knapp, Roland A. Ledger, Mark E. Memmott, Jane Mintenbeck, Katja Pinnegar, John K. Rall, Björn C. Rayner, Tom Ruess, Liliane Ulrich, Werner Warren, Philip Williams, Rich J. Woodward, Guy Yodzis, Peter Neo D. Martinez 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298772 https://figshare.com/collections/BODY_SIZES_OF_CONSUMERS_AND_THEIR_RESOURCES/3298772 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/05-0379 CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us CC-BY Environmental Science Ecology FOS Biological sciences Collection article 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298772 https://doi.org/10.1890/05-0379 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Trophic information—who eats whom—and species' body sizes are two of the most basic descriptions necessary to understand community structure as well as ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Consumer–resource body size ratios between predators and their prey, and parasitoids and their hosts, have recently gained increasing attention due to their important implications for species' interaction strengths and dynamical population stability. This data set documents body sizes of consumers and their resources. We gathered body size data for the food webs of Skipwith Pond, a parasitoid community of grass-feeding chalcid wasps in British grasslands; the pelagic community of the Benguela system, a source web based on broom in the United Kingdom; Broadstone Stream, UK; the Grand Cariçaie marsh at Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Tuesday Lake, USA; alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevada of California; Mill Stream, UK; and the eastern Weddell Sea Shelf, Antarctica. Further consumer–resource body size data are included for planktonic predators, predatory nematodes, parasitoids, marine fish predators, freshwater invertebrates, Australian terrestrial consumers, and aphid parasitoids. Containing 16 807 records, this is the largest data set ever compiled for body sizes of consumers and their resources. In addition to body sizes, the data set includes information on consumer and resource taxonomy, the geographic location of the study, the habitat studied, the type of the feeding interaction (e.g., predacious, parasitic) and the metabolic categories of the species (e.g., invertebrate, ectotherm vertebrate). The present data set was gathered with the intent to stimulate research on effects of consumer–resource body size patterns on food-web structure, interaction-strength distributions, population dynamics, and community stability. The use of a common data set may facilitate cross-study comparisons and understanding of the relationships between different scientific approaches and models. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Weddell Sea DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Weddell Weddell Sea |
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Trophic information—who eats whom—and species' body sizes are two of the most basic descriptions necessary to understand community structure as well as ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Consumer–resource body size ratios between predators and their prey, and parasitoids and their hosts, have recently gained increasing attention due to their important implications for species' interaction strengths and dynamical population stability. This data set documents body sizes of consumers and their resources. We gathered body size data for the food webs of Skipwith Pond, a parasitoid community of grass-feeding chalcid wasps in British grasslands; the pelagic community of the Benguela system, a source web based on broom in the United Kingdom; Broadstone Stream, UK; the Grand Cariçaie marsh at Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Tuesday Lake, USA; alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevada of California; Mill Stream, UK; and the eastern Weddell Sea Shelf, Antarctica. Further consumer–resource body size data are included for planktonic predators, predatory nematodes, parasitoids, marine fish predators, freshwater invertebrates, Australian terrestrial consumers, and aphid parasitoids. Containing 16 807 records, this is the largest data set ever compiled for body sizes of consumers and their resources. In addition to body sizes, the data set includes information on consumer and resource taxonomy, the geographic location of the study, the habitat studied, the type of the feeding interaction (e.g., predacious, parasitic) and the metabolic categories of the species (e.g., invertebrate, ectotherm vertebrate). The present data set was gathered with the intent to stimulate research on effects of consumer–resource body size patterns on food-web structure, interaction-strength distributions, population dynamics, and community stability. The use of a common data set may facilitate cross-study comparisons and understanding of the relationships between different scientific approaches and models. |
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Brose, Ulrich Cushing, Lara Berlow, Eric L. Jonsson, Tomas Banasek-Richter, Carolin Louis-Felix Bersier Blanchard, Julia L. Brey, Thomas Carpenter, Stephen R. Marie-France Cattin Blandenier Cohen, Joel E. Dawah, Hassan Ali Dell, Tony Francois Edwards Harper-Smith, Sarah Jacob, Ute Knapp, Roland A. Ledger, Mark E. Memmott, Jane Mintenbeck, Katja Pinnegar, John K. Rall, Björn C. Rayner, Tom Ruess, Liliane Ulrich, Werner Warren, Philip Williams, Rich J. Woodward, Guy Yodzis, Peter Neo D. Martinez |
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Brose, Ulrich Cushing, Lara Berlow, Eric L. Jonsson, Tomas Banasek-Richter, Carolin Louis-Felix Bersier Blanchard, Julia L. Brey, Thomas Carpenter, Stephen R. Marie-France Cattin Blandenier Cohen, Joel E. Dawah, Hassan Ali Dell, Tony Francois Edwards Harper-Smith, Sarah Jacob, Ute Knapp, Roland A. Ledger, Mark E. Memmott, Jane Mintenbeck, Katja Pinnegar, John K. Rall, Björn C. Rayner, Tom Ruess, Liliane Ulrich, Werner Warren, Philip Williams, Rich J. Woodward, Guy Yodzis, Peter Neo D. Martinez |
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BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES |
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BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES |
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BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES |
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BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES |
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body sizes of consumers and their resources |
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2016 |
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