In press

Dell A.I., Couzin, I.D., Dunne, J.A., Noldus, L.P.J.J. and Brose, U. (Accepted): Imaging and automated tracking technologies for community ecologists. Trends in Ecology and Evolution


Dell A.I., Pawar, S., Savage, V.M. (In Press): The thermal dependence of biological traits. Ecology


Dell A.I., Pawar, S., Savage, V.M. (In Press): Temperature dependence of trophic interactions driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy. Journal of Animal Ecology


Gornish, E.S., Hamilton, J.A., Barberan, A., Benito, B.M., Binzer, A., DeMeester, J.E., Gruwez, R., Moreira, B., Taheri, S., Tomiolo, S., Vinagre, C., Vuarin, P. & Weaver, J. (accepted): Interdisciplinary climate change collaborations are essential for early-career scientists. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union


Kalinkat, G., Brose, U. & Rall, B.C. (online): Habitat structure alters top-down control in litter communities. Oecolgia, doi:10.1007/s00442-012-2530-6

2013

Pawar, S., Dell, A.I. & Savage, V.M. (2013): Does consumption rate scale superlinearly? - Reply. Nature, E2–E3, doi: 10.1038/nature11830


Schneider, F.D., & Brose, U. (2013): Beyond diversity: how nested predator effects control ecosystem functions. Journal of Animal Ecology, 82(1): 64-71, doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12010


Gomez-Canchong, P., Quinones, R.A. & Brose, U. (2013): Robustness of size–structure across ecological networks in pelagic systems. Theoretical Ecology, 6(1): 45-56, doi: 10.1007/s12080-011-0156-7

2012

O’Gorman, E.J., Pichler, D.E., Adams, G., Benstead, J.P., Craig, N. Cross, W.F., Demars, B.O.L., Friberg, N., Gíslason, G.M., Gudmundsdóttir, R., Hawczak, A., Hood, J.M., Hudson,L.N., Johansson, L., Johansson, M., Junker, J.R., Laurila, A., Manson, J.R., Mavromati, E., Nelson, D., Ólafsson, J.S., Perkins, D.M., Petchey, O.L., Plebani, M., Reuman, D.C., Rall, B.C., Stewart, R., Thompson, M. & Woodward, G. (2012): Impacts of warming on the structure and function of aquatic communities: individual- to ecosystem-level responses. Advances in Ecological Research, 47: 81-176, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-398315-2.00002-8


Thompson, R.M., Brose, U., Dunne, J.A., Hall Jr., R.A., Hladyz, S., Kitching, R.L., Martinez, N.D., Rantala, H., Romanuk, T.N., Stouffer, D.B. & Tylianakis, J.M. (2012): Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 27(12): 689–697, doi:10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.005


Twomey, M., Brodte, E., Jacob, U., Brose, U., Crowe, T.P. & Emmerson, M.C. (2012): Idiosyncratic species effects confound size-based predictions of responses to climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1605): 2971-2978, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0244


Jochum, M., Schneider, F.D., Crowe, T.P., Brose, U. & O'Gorman, E.J. (2012): Climate-induced changes in bottom-up and top-down processes independently alter a marine ecosystem. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1605): 2962-2970, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0237


Brose, U., Dunne, J.A., Montoya, J.M., Petchey, O.L., Schneider, F.D. & Jacob, U. (2012): Climate change in size-structured ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1605): 2903-2912, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0232


Binzer, A., Guill, C., Brose, U. & Rall, B.C. (2012): The dynamics of food chains under climate change and nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1605):2935-2944, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0230


Ott, D., Rall, B.C. & Brose, U. (2012): Climate change effects on macrofaunal litter decomposition: the interplay of temperature, body masses and stoichiometry. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1605): 3025-3032, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0240


Rall, B.C., Brose, U., Hartvig, M., Kalinkat, G., Schwarzmüller, F., Vucic-Pestic, O. & Petchey, O.L. (2012): Universal temperature and body-mass scaling of feeding rates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1605): 2923-2934, doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0242


Schmitt, C.K., Guill, C. & Drossel, B. (2012): The robustness of cyclic dominance under random fluctuations. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 308: 79-87, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.05.028


Plitzko, S.J., Drossel, B. & Guill, C. (2012): Complexity–stability relations in generalized food-web models with realistic parameters. Journal of Theoretical Biology 306: 7-14, doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.04.008


Schneider, F. D., Scheu, S. & Brose, U. (2012): Body mass constraints on feeding rates determine the consequences of predator loss. Ecology Letters 15(5): 436-443, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01750.x


Latz, E., Eisenhauer, N., Rall, B.C., Allan, E., Roscher, C., Scheu, S., Jousset, A. (2012): Plant diversity improves protection against soil-borne pathogens by fostering antagonistic bacterial communities. Journal of Ecology 100(3): 597-604, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01940.x


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Lang, B., Rall, B.C., Brose, U. (2012): Warming effects on consumption and intraspecific interference competition depend on predator metabolism. Journal of Animal Ecology 81(3): 516-523, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01931.x


Kefi, S., Berlow, E.L., Wieters, E.A., Navarrete, S.A., Petchey, O.L., Wood, S.A., Boit, A., Joppa, L.N., Lafferty, K.D., Williams, R.J., Martinez, N.D., Menge, B.A., Blanchette, C.A., Iles, A.C. & Brose, U. (2012): More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs. Ecology Letters 15(4): 291-300, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01732.x


Heckmann, L., Drossel, B., Brose, U. & Guill, C. (2012): Interactive effects of body-size structure and adaptive foraging on food-web stability. Ecology Letters 15(3): 243-250, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01733.x

2011

Brose, U. (2011): Extinctions in complex, size-structured communities. Basic and Applied Ecology 12(7): 557-561, doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.010

Curtsdotter, A., Binzer, A., Brose, U., de Castro, F., Ebenman, B., Eklöf, A., Riede, J.O., Thierry, A., Rall, B.C. (2011): Robustness to secondary extinctions: Comparing trait-based sequential deletions in static and dynamic food webs. Basic and Applied Ecology 12(7): 571-580, doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.008

Riede, J.O., Binzer, A., Brose, U., de Castro, F. , Curtsdotter, A., Rall, B.C., Eklöf, A. (2011): Size-based food web characteristics govern the response to species extinctions. Basic and Applied Ecology 12(7): 581-589, doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.006

Binzer, A., Brose, U., Curtsdotter, A., Eklöf, A., Rall, B.C., Riede, J.O., de Castro, F. (2011): The susceptibility of species to extinctions in model communities. Basic and Applied Ecology 12(7): 590-599, doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.002

Kalinkat, G., Rall, B.C., Vucic-Pestic, O., Brose, U. (2011): The allometry of prey preferences. PLoS ONE 6(10): e25937. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025937

Guill, C., Drossel, B., Just, W., Carmack, E. (2011): A three-species model explaining cyclic dominance of pacific salmon. Journal of Theoretical Biology 276 (1): 16-21, DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.036.

Guill, C., Reichardt, B., Drossel, B., Just, W (2011): Coexisting patterns of population oscillations: the degenerate Neimark-Sacker bifurcation as a generic mechanism. Physical Review E 83 (2): 021910, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.83.021910.

Jacob, U. et al. (2011): The role of body size in complex food webs: A cold case. Advances in Ecological Research, 45: 181-223

Ehnes, R.B., Rall, B.C., Brose, U. (2011): Phylogenetic grouping, curvature and metabolic scaling in terrestrial invertebrates. Ecology Letters, 14 (10): 993-1000, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01660.x

Layer, K., Hildrew, A.G., Jenkins, G.B., Riede, J.O., Rossiter, S.J., Townsend, C.R., Woodward, G. (2011): Chapter two - Long-term dynamics of a well-characterised food web: Four decades of acidification and recovery in the broadstone stream model system. Advances in Ecological Research, 44: 69 - 117

Petchey, O.L., Beckerman, A.P., Riede, J.O., Warren, P.H. (2011): Fit, efficiency, and biology: some thoughts on judging food web models. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 279 (1): 169-171.

Rall, B.C., Kalinkat, G, , Vucic-Pestic, O., Ott, D., & Brose, U. (2011): Taxonomic versus allometric constraints on nonlinear interaction strengths; Oikos, 120 (4): 483-492.

Digel, C., Riede, J.O. & Brose, U. (2011): Body sizes, cumulative and allometric degree distributions across natural food webs; Oikos, 120 (4): 503-509.

Vucic-Pestic, O., Ehnes, R., Rall, B.C., & Brose, U. (2011): Warming up the system: higher predator feeding rates, but lower energetic efficiencies. Global Change Biology, 17 (3): 1301-1310.

Riede, J.O., Brose, U., Ebenman, B., Jacob, U., Thompson, R., Townsend, C.R., & Jonsson, T. (2011): Stepping in Elton's footprints: a general scaling model for body masses and trophic levels across ecosystems. Ecology Letters, 14 (2): 169-178.

Kéfi, S., Rietkerk, M., Roy, M., Franc, A. , de Ruiter P.C. & Pascual M. (2011): Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction; Ecology Letters, 14 (1): 29-35.

2010

Guill, C. (2010): A Model of Large-Scale Evolution of Complex Food Webs. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, 5 (6): 139-158.

Kéfi, S., Alados, C.L., Chaves, R.C.G., Pueyo Y. & Rietkerk, M. (2010): Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes?: Comment. Ecology 91: 3739-3742.

Kéfi, S., Eppinga, M. B. , de Ruiter, P. C. & Rietkerk, M. (2010): Bistability and regular spatial patterns in arid ecosystems. Theoretical Ecology 3: 257-269.

Riede, J.O., Rall, B.C., Banasek-Richter, C., Navarrete, S.A., Wieters, E.A., Emmerson, M.C., Jacob, U. & Brose, U. (2010): Scaling of food web properties with diversity and complexity across ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research 42: 139-170.

Layer, K., Riede, J.O., Hildrew, A.G., & Woodward, G. (2010): Food web structure and stability in 20 streams across a wide pH gradient. Advances in Ecological Research 42: 265-299.

Petchey, O.L., Brose, U. & Rall, B.C. (2010): Predicting the effects of temperature on food web connectance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 2081-2091.

Kartascheff, B., Heckmann, L., Drossel, B. & Guill, C. (2010): Why allometric scaling enhances stability in food web models. Theoretical Ecology 3: 195-208.

Vucic-Pestic, O., Birkhofer, K., Rall, B.C., Scheu, S. & Brose, U. (2010): Habitat structure and prey aggregation determine the functional response in a soil predator-prey interaction. Pedobiologia 53: 307-312.

Brose, U. (2010): Improving nature conservancy strategies by ecological network theory. Basic and Applied Ecology 11: 1-5.

Rall, B.C., Vucic-Pestic, O., Ehnes, R.E., Emmerson, M. & Brose, U. (2010): Temperature, predator-prey interaction strength and population stability. Global Change Biology 16: 2145-2157.
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Vucic-Pestic, O., Rall, B.C., Kalinkat, G. & Brose, U. (2010): Allometric functional response models: body masses constrain interaction strengths. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 249-256.

Brose, U. (2010): Body-mass constraints on foraging behaviour determine population and food-web dynamics. Functional Ecology 24: 28-34.

2009

Berlow, E.L., Dunne, J.A., Martinez, N.D., Stark, P.B., Williams, R.J. & Brose, U. (2009): Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs. PNAS 106: 187-191.

Romanuk, T.N., Zhou, Y., Brose, U., Berlow, E.L., Williams, R.J. & Martinez, N.D. (2009): Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364: 1743-1754.




2008

Brose, U. (2008): Complex food webs prevent competitive exclusion among producer species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2507-2514.

Brose, U., Ehnes, R.B., Rall, B.C., Vucic-Pestic, O., Berlow, E.L. & Scheu, S. (2008): Foraging theory predicts predator-prey energy fluxes. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 1072-1078.

Berlow, E.L., Brose, U. & Martinez, N.D. (2008): The Goldilocks factor in food webs. PNAS 105: 4079-4080.

Petchey, O.L., Beckerman, A.P., Riede, J.O. & Warren, P.H. (2008): Size, foraging, and food web structure. PNAS 105: 4191-4196.

Rall, B.C., Guill, C. & Brose, U. (2008): Food-web connectance and predator interference dampen the paradox of enrichment. Oikos 117: 202-213.

Otto, S., Berlow, E.L., Rank, N. & Brose, U. (2008): Predator diversity and identity drive interaction strength and trophic cascades in a food web. Ecology 89: 134-144.





2007





Otto, S., Rall, B.C., & Brose, U. (2007): Allometric degree distributions facilitate food web stability. Nature 450: 1226-1229.

Uchida, S., Drossel, B. & Brose, U. (2007): The structure of food webs with adaptive behaviour. Ecological Modelling 206: 263-276.





2006





Brose, U., Williams, R.J. & Martinez, N.D. (2006): Allometric scaling enhances stability in complex food webs. Ecology Letters 9: 1228-1236.
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Brose, U. et al. (2006): Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs. Ecology 87: 2411-2417.





2005





Brose, U., Berlow, E.L. & Martinez, N.D. (2005): Scaling up keystone effects from simple to complex ecological networks. Ecology Letters 8: 1317-1325.

Brose, U. et al. (2005): Body sizes of consumers and their resources. Ecology 86: 2545.

Brose, U. & Tielbörger, K. (2005): Subtle differences in environmental stress along a flooding gradient affect the importance of interspecific competition in an annual plant community. Plant Ecology 178: 51-59.





2004





Brose, U., Ostling, A., Harrison, K. & Martinez, N.D. (2004): Unified spatial scaling of species and their trophic interactions. Nature 428: 167-171.

Brose, U. & Martinez, N.D. (2004): Estimating the richness of species with variable mobility. Oikos 105: 292-300.

Tews, J., Brose, U., Grimm, V., Tielbörger, K., Wichmann, M.C., Schwager, M. & Jeltsch, F. (2004): Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity of the vegetation: the importance of keystone structures. Journal of Biogeography 31: 79-92.





2003





Brose, U., Williams, R.J. & Martinez, N.D. (2003): The niche-model recovers the negative complexity-stability relationship in adaptive food webs – Comment on “Foraging adaptation and the relationship between food-web complexity and stability”. Science 301: 918.

Brose, U., Martinez, N.D. & Williams, R.J. (2003): Estimating species richness: sensitivity to sample coverage and insensitivity to spatial patterns. Ecology 84: 2364-2377.

Brose, U. (2003): Island biogeography of temporary wetland’s carabid beetle communities. Journal of Biogeography 30: 879-888.

Brose, U. (2003): Regional diversity of temporary wetland Carabid beetle communities: a matter of landscape features or cultivation intensity? Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 98:163-167.

Brose, U. (2003): Bottom-up control of carabid beetle communities in early successional wetlands: mediated by vegetation structure or plant diversity? Oecologia 135: 407-413.





2002





Brose, U. (2002): Estimating species richness of pitfall catches by non-parametric estimators. Pedobiologia 46: 101-107.





2001





Brose, U. (2001): Relative importance of isolation, area and habitat heterogeneity for vascular plant species richness of temporary wetlands in East-German farmland. Ecography 24: 722-730.