Kayla R. S. Hale

Theoretical / computational ecologist

Tag: herbivory

  • 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.