Université de Fribourg

Body sizes of consumers and their resources

Brose, Ulrich ; Cushing, Lara ; Berlow, Eric L. ; Jonsson, Tomas ; Banasek-Richter, Carolin ; Bersier, Louis-Félix ; Blanchard, Julia L. ; Brey, Thomas ; Carpenter, Stephen R. ; Cattin Blandenier, Marie-France ; Cohen, Joel E. ; Dawah, Hassan Ali ; Dell, Tony ; Edwards, Francois ; Harper-Smith, Sarah ; Jacob, Ute ; Knapp, Roland A. ; Ledger, Mark E. ; Memmott, Jane ; Mintenbeck, Katja ; Pinnegar, John K. ; Rall, Björn C. ; Rayner, Thomas ; Ruess, Liliane ; Ulrich, Werner ; Warren, Philip ; Williams, Richard J. ; Woodward, Guy ; Yodzis, Peter ; Martinez, Neo D.

In: Ecology, 2005, vol. 86, p. 2545

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'...