Mentor(s): Hank Stevens, Ph.D. Invasive species that do not rely on ecosystem gaps are poorly understood, yet they pose serious threats to ecosystem health. This study focuses on O. undulatifolius and ...
Macroscopic ecosystem properties, such as major material pathways and community biomass structure, underlie the ecosystem services on which humans rely. While ecologists have long sought to identify ...
Born in food web ecology, the concept of trophic levels -- the hierarchy of who eats who in the natural world -- is an elegant way to understand how biomass and energy move through a natural system.