Browsing Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor "Brose, Ulrich Prof. Dr."
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Feeding Interactions and Their Relevance to Biodiversity under Global Change
(2017-03-21)This dissertation focuses on the effect of multiple global change drivers on feeding interaction strength and biodiversity loss. The mechanisms of their influences on food webs are demonstrated by simple food chain motifs ... -
Influence of warming on microbial ecosystems
(2017-02-13)Climate change is progressing fast causing losses in biodiversity to the extent that scientists believe the world to be on the brink of the sixth wave of mass extinction. While some global change drivers like pollution, ... -
Using body mass, metabolism and stoichiometry to assess ecological impacts in a changing environment
(2016-03-01)Earth’s ecosystems are composed of living organisms and their biotic and abiotic environment. In order to understand the structure and functioning of these ecosystems, ecologists study the interactions of organisms with ... -
Land-use impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of complex multitrophic communities
(2016-02-24)Global biodiversity is rapidly declining, resulting in far-reaching impacts on the functioning of ecosystems and human wellbeing. In recent decades, anthropogenic land use has been identified as a major driver of biodiversity ... -
Ecological impacts of biodiversity enrichment in oil palm plantations
(2016-01-12)Land-use change is one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss. To satisfy the demand for palm oil in food and biofuel, complex, species-rich rainforests are converted into large, simply-structured mono-culture oil palm ... -
Global change effects on the stability of food-web motifs
(2015-10-15)Global change affects ecosystems worldwide and has already caused a massive decline in the world's biodiversity. As the processes behind environmental change continue at ever-accelerating rates, this leads to a severe ... -
Allometric structure and topology of food webs: Energetic constraints conserve food-web structure across ecosystems and space
(2014-07-23)Natural ecosystems comprise an innumerable amount of different organisms. These organisms are not separated, they interact and depend on each other. Today’s ecosystems are facing an enormous decline in biodiversity due to ... -
Extinctions in complex food webs: drivers and consequences
(2013-09-04)Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The rate of extinctions matches historical extinction waves and is likely to accelerate even further since two main drivers of biodiversity loss, global warming and ... -
Topology and stability of complex foodwebs
(2012-03-09)Since the early twentieth century, different general laws have been investigated to understand mechanisms driving stability in natural ecosystems, but until today the mechanisms are still generally unexplored. The main ...