Gleaning, fast and slow: In defense of a canonical ecological trade-off [Biological Sciences]

In an elegant analysis of resource utilization data from>500 eukaryote species, Kiørboe and Thomas (1) describe a positive relationship between the rate at which organisms acquire and ingest food. From this, they infer that “perhaps the most commonly assumed trade-off in ecology—between relative performance at low and high resource...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - January 25, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Andrew D. Letten, Masato Yamamichi Tags: Ecology, Letters, Letters and Replies Source Type: research