M. Jochum

Body size is a better predictor of intra- than interspecific variation of animal stoichiometry across realms

The paper analyzes animal stoichiometry across species and body sizes, finding body size better predicts intraspecific than interspecific variation in elemental content.

Quantitative description of six fish species' gut contents and abundances of their prey in the benthic food web of the Baltic Sea (1968-1978)

The paper compiles and analyzes gut content data from six fish species in the Baltic Sea to study trophic interactions and foraging behavior in relation to environmental changes.

Global environmental drivers of local abundance-mass scaling in soil animal communities

The paper examines how climatic and edaphic factors influence body mass-abundance scaling in soil animal communities across four countries.

Plant-invertebrate interactions across a forested retrogressive chronosequence

The paper examines how nutrient availability and predator abundance influence invertebrate herbivore biomass across a retrogressive forest chronosequence, revealing a shift from bottom-up to top-down control.

Aboveground impacts of a belowground invader: how invasive earthworms alter aboveground arthropod communities in a northern North American forest

This study shows invasive earthworms reduce aboveground arthropod abundance, biomass, and species richness in a Canadian forest, with cascading effects across trophic levels.

Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change

The paper shows that flexible foraging in fish leads to reduced consumption efficiency and biodiversity under warming conditions.

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

This paper compares biodiversity experiments to real-world plant communities and finds that experimental results are robust to the inclusion of unrealistic communities.

fluxweb: a R package to easily estimate energy fluxes in food webs

fluxweb estimates energy fluxes in food webs using a steady-state model and integrates with allometric theory, providing tools for flux calculation and network stability analysis.

Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard

The paper proposes a standardized vocabulary and data structure for ecological trait data and provides an R-package to harmonize datasets from diverse sources.

Applying generalised allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods

This study develops and evaluates length-mass regressions to predict arthropod body mass across temperate and tropical regions, finding that including body width improves accuracy and that regional parameters reduce prediction error.