Food webs

We connect foraging biology and species interactions to explore the dynamics of species and the stability, structure and function of ecological communities.

Paleo Networks

How has ancient climate change driven patterns of diversity, stability, and the resilience of paleo communities?

Food webs provide us with a means to understand community structure, and provides us a framework to understand how extinctions lead to the reorganisation or collapse of communities, ultimately allowing us to understand the reorganisation of communities following perturbation events.

Optimal Foraging

We explore how optimal foraging and other traits underpin predictions about the dynamics and stability of communities facing multiple simultaneous threats.

Stressors

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Stability

How does food web structure determine the temporal stability of ecological communities?

We work on how community structure and species interactions affect community stability.