Based on 157 aquatic food webs, this analysis demonstrated the prevalence of asymmetric foraging in natural aquatic food webs, i.e. predators obtain their energy mostly from lower trophic levels. Such asymmetric foraging lowers trophic levels and omnivory at both species and food-web levels, compared to estimates from traditional topology-based approaches.

In collaboration with NutNet scientists, we used a globally coordinated experimental network and demonstrated that both alpha and beta diversity contributes to stabilizing natural grassland ecosystems, a prediction made by Wang & Loreau (2014, 2016). Furthermore, our results showed that eutrophication can dampen the stabilizing effects of biodiversity at both local and regional scales. The paper, now published in Nature Communications, was led by Dr Yann Hautier and co-corresponded by Yann and Shaopeng.

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