Kayla R. S. Hale

Theoretical / computational ecologist

Tag: terrestrial plants

  • 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.

  • Characterizing vulnerable dynamics of pollination and seed dispersal mutualisms at low density

    Pollination and seed dispersal mutualisms support a large amount of biodiversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems (Janzen 1985). However, both the plants and animals that participate in these mutualisms are facing global declines due to anthropogenic perturbations such as climate change, habitat destruction, and invasive species (Traveset & Richardson 2006, 2014, Tylianakis et al. 2008, Potts et al. 2010, Read.