Food Chain

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A trophic cascade regulates salt marsh primary production. 
  • A unifying framework for interpreting and predicting mutualistic systems. 
  • Abundance and molecular diversity of thraustochytrids in coastal waters of southern China. 
  • Accumulation of atmospheric and sedimentary PCBs and toxaphene in a Lake Michigan food web. 
  • Annual Partitioning Patterns of Labyrinthulomycetes Protists Reveal Their Multifaceted Role in Marine Microbial Food Webs. 
  • Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements. 
  • Benthic and pelagic pathways of methylmercury bioaccumulation in estuarine food webs of the northeast United States. 
  • Beyond Selenium: Coal Combustion Residuals Lead to Multielement Enrichment in Receiving Lake Food Webs. 
  • Bioaccumulation and toxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes to benthic organisms at the base of the marine food chain. 
  • Biogeographic consequences of nutrient enrichment for plant-herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands. 
  • Brominated and chlorinated flame retardants in San Francisco Bay sediments and wildlife. 
  • Bycatch of marine mammals in U.S. and global fisheries. 
  • Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities 
  • Coexistence of cycling and dispersing consumer species: Armstrong and McGehee in space. 
  • Comparing polybrominated diphenyl ether and polychlorinated biphenyl bioaccumulation in a food web in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan. 
  • Consumer control of salt marshes driven by human disturbance. 
  • Contaminant Subsidies to Riparian Food Webs in Appalachian Streams Impacted by Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. 
  • Coping with copepods: do right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) forage visually in dark waters? 
  • Crab herbivory regulates plant facilitative and competitive processes in Argentinean marshes. 
  • Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition. 
  • Does predation contribute to tree diversity? 
  • Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. 
  • Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments. 
  • Ecological networks and their fragility. 
  • Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. 
  • Effects of feral cats on the evolution of anti-predator behaviours in island reptiles: insights from an ancient introduction. 
  • Effects of temperature, salinity, and sediment organic carbon on methylmercury bioaccumulation in an estuarine amphipod. 
  • Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests. 
  • Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates. 
  • Evolution of resistance to a multiple-herbivore community: genetic correlations, diffuse coevolution, and constraints on the plant's response to selection. 
  • Factors affecting individual foraging specialization and temporal diet stability across the range of a large "generalist" apex predator. 
  • Feeding rates and under-ice foraging strategies of the smallest lunge filter feeder, the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). 
  • Hierarchical organization via a facilitation cascade in intertidal cordgrass bed communities. 
  • How habitat-modifying organisms structure the food web of two coastal ecosystems. 
  • How wide is a stream? Spatial extent of the potential "stream signature" in terrestrial food webs using meta-analysis. 
  • Jasmonate signaling and manipulation by pathogens and insects. 
  • Light-driven synchrony of Prochlorococcus growth and mortality in the subtropical Pacific gyre. 
  • Macronutrient contributions of insects to the diets of hunter-gatherers: a geometric analysis. 
  • Mesoscale activity facilitates energy gain in a top predator. 
  • Metabolism of PCBs by the deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsoni). 
  • Nanoparticle Surface Affinity as a Predictor of Trophic Transfer. 
  • Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts. 
  • Phylogenetic analysis of the ecology and evolution of mammalian sleep. 
  • Physical Stress, Consumer Control, and New Theory in Ecology. 
  • Plant sex and the evolution of plant defenses against herbivores. 
  • Predator diversity stabilizes and strengthens trophic control of a keystone grazer. 
  • Reciprocal specialization in ecological networks. 
  • Secondary foundation species as drivers of trophic and functional diversity: evidence from a tree-epiphyte system. 
  • Smashing mantis shrimp strategically impact shells. 
  • Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound. 
  • Stable isotope analyses reveal previously unknown trophic mode diversity in the Hymenochaetales. 
  • Temperature and nutrients drive eco-phenotypic dynamics in a microbial food web. 
  • The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. 
  • The effect of aggregation on visibility in open water. 
  • The emergent interactions that govern biodiversity change. 
  • The giant eyes of giant squid are indeed unexpectedly large, but not if used for spotting sperm whales. 
  • The movement ecology of fishes. 
  • Toward a trophic theory of species diversity. 
  • Trophic cascades in rocky shore tide pools: distinguishing lethal and nonlethal effects. 
  • Trophic downgrading of planet Earth. 
  • Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra. 
  • Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Ferguson, P. Lee, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society