David A. Vasseur

TL;DR: Six general mechanisms by which trait variation changes the outcome of ecological interactions are identified and synthesize recent theory and identify several direct effects of trait variation per se and indirect effects arising from the role of genetic variation in trait evolution.

TL;DR: This work couple fine-grained climate projections to thermal performance data from 38 ectothermic invertebrate species and contrast projections with those of a simple model to show that projections based on mean temperature change alone differ substantially from those incorporating changes to the variation, and to the mean and variation in concert.

TL;DR: In this paper, the variance spectra of a wide variety of long-term time series of environmental variables were analyzed and it was shown that the spectrum of frequencies in noise is particularly important to dynamics and persistence.

TL;DR: This work addresses problems of tractability and plausibility in community/environment models by incorporating the Boltzmann factor (temperature dependence) in a bioenergetic consumer‐resource framework and leads to three predictions for the response of consumer‐ resource systems to increasing mean temperature (warming).

TL;DR: This framework provides a mechanistic and more unified understanding of the temperature dependence of trophic dynamics in terms of ecological rates, biomass ratios and stability and characterises key asymmetries in species responses to temperature that produce these distinct dynamic behaviours.