Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function

Guy Woodward is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and Series Editor for Advances in Ecological Research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including recent papers in Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change, with a strong emphasis on understanding and predicting how aquatic ecosystems and food webs respond to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stressors, including climate change, chemical pollution, habitat degradation and invasive species. Much of this work covers multiple scales in space and time and also a range of organisational levels - from genes to ecosystems. His research group and ongoing collaborations span the natural and social sciences, reflecting the need for multidisciplinary approaches for addressing the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.

"Important and innovative contributions to the subject and together have a breadth of approach that means that what they choose to put before their readers is likely to be of unusual interest or significance." --Plant Pathology

• Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to EcosystemsJean P. Gibert, Anthony I. Dell, John P. DeLong and Samraat PawarIndividual Variability: The Missing Component to our Understanding of Predator–Prey InteractionsNathalie Pettorelli, Anne Hilborn , Clare Duncan and Sarah M. DurantIndividual Variation Decreases Interference Competition but Increases Species PersistenceJean P. Gibert and John P. DeLongPredictors of Individual Variation in Movement in a Natural Population of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)Kate L. Laskowski, Simon Pearish, Miles Bensky and Alison M. BellEco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant–Insect Communities Facing Disturbances: Implications for Community Maintenance and Agricultural ManagementEwen Georgelin, Grigoris Kylafis and Nicolas LoeuillePopulation and Community Body Size Structure Across a Complex Environmental GradientAnthony I. Dell, Lei Zhao, Ulrich Brose, Richard G. Pearson and Ross A. AlfordShifts in the Diversity and Composition of Consumer Traits Constrain the Effects of Land Use on Stream Ecosystem FunctioningAndré Frainer and Brendan G. McKieThe Role of Body Size Variation in Community AssemblySamraat PawarScaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling TheoriesBrian J. Enquist, Jon Norberg, Stephen P. Bonser, Cyrille Violle, Colleen T. Webb, Amanda Henderson, Lindsey L. Sloat and Van M. Savage Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning Oswald J. Schmitz, Robert W. Buchkowski, Karin T. Burghardt, and Colin M. Donihue