Food webs

This study identifies a cyanobacterial toxin that causes mass mortality of eagles and other birds.

Rapid evolution of morphological variations is shown to be linked to positions of coral reef fishes at trophic-web extremes. This finding suggests that current fishing practices on coral reefs that target top predators and seaweed-grazing fishes may undermine the potential for future species diversification.

Several recent theoretical studies develop tools to predict species diversity in large model ecosystems, setting a new benchmark for understanding the mechanism of species coexistence in natural ecosystems.

This study uses ocean mesocosms to show that climate change can lead to a decoupled increase of cyanobacterial primary production and a collapse of the marine food web.