Kayla R. S. Hale

Theoretical / computational ecologist

Category: review

  • Bioenergetic approaches to terrestrial food webs – new traits for new habitats

    Food webs tend to be strongly size-structured, with larger, slower-growing consumers eating broader ranges of smaller, faster-growing resources (Williams & Martinez 2000, Brose et al. 2006). Bioenergetic network models use species’ body size as a key trait to constrain the feeding and vital rates of species (via “allometric scaling laws”), creating plausible simulations of food Read.

  • Population dynamics of mutualism are robustly stable, but exhibit characteristic thresholds at low density

    “Mutualism has always been the ‘bastard child’ of community ecology” from Community Ecology (Mittelbach 2012) Mutualisms are a ubiquitous but remarkably diverse set of interactions, with species alternately providing food, defense, habitat, and facilitating growth and reproduction for each other in different circumstances. Though known to be critical for many ecosystem functions, mutualisms have not been Read.