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Eric L. Berlow is affiliated with the University of California, Merced in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant work in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their main topics of study include ecosystem dynamics and resilience, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, marine and coastal plant biology, chaos, complexity, and education, microbial community ecology and physiology, as well as marine biology and ecology research.

Eric L. Berlow has published in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • BioScience
  • Biological Conservation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Scaling up our understanding of tipping points," 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Ecological Synthesis and Its Role in Advancing Knowledge," 2020, BioScience
  • "Mapping hotspots of potential ecosystem fragility using commonly available spatial data," 2020, Biological Conservation
  • "Unifying microorganisms and macrograzers in rocky shore ecological networks," 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Creative Diversity: Patterns in the Creative Habits of ~10,000 People," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Among frequent co-authors are Rich Williams, Sonia Kéfi, Alexandre Génin, Steven R. Lee, and Camille Saade.

Best Publications

  • Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100.

    O E Sala;F S Chapin;J J Armesto;E Berlow

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity

    John C. Moore;Eric L. Berlow;David C. Coleman;Quan Dong

  • The Keystone Species Concept: Variation in Interaction Strength in a Rocky Intertidal Habitat

    Bruce A. Menge;Eric L. Berlow;Carol A. Blanchette;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

    Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

  • Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities

    Eric L Berlow;Anje-Margiet Neutel;Joel E Cohen;Peter C de Ruiter

  • Strong effects of weak interactions in ecological communities

    E. L. Berlow

  • Two degrees of separation in complex food webs.

    Richard J. Williams;Eric L. Berlow;Jennifer A. Dunne;Jennifer A. Dunne;Albert László Barabási

  • More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.

    Sonia Kéfi;Sonia Kéfi;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Evie A. Wieters;Evie A. Wieters;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs.

    Eric L. Berlow;Jennifer A. Dunne;Neo D. Martinez;Philip B. Stark

  • QUANTIFYING VARIATION IN THE STRENGTHS OF SPECIES INTERACTIONS

    Eric L. Berlow;Sergio A. Navarrete;Cheryl J. Briggs;Mary E. Power

  • Network structure beyond food webs: mapping non-trophic and trophic interactions on Chilean rocky shores.

    Sonia Kéfi;Sonia Kéfi;Eric L. Berlow;Evie A. Wieters;Evie A. Wieters;Lucas N. Joppa

  • How Structured Is the Entangled Bank? The Surprisingly Simple Organization of Multiplex Ecological Networks Leads to Increased Persistence and Resilience.

    Sonia Kéfi;Vincent Miele;Evie A. Wieters;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks.

    Tamara Natasha Romanuk;Yun Zhou;Ulrich Brose;Eric L. Berlow

  • Scaling up keystone effects from simple to complex ecological networks

    Ulrich Brose;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Neo D. Martinez

  • Foraging theory predicts predator-prey energy fluxes

    Ulrich Brose;R. B. Ehnes;B. C. Rall;Olivera Vucic-Pestic

  • FROM CANALIZATION TO CONTINGENCY: HISTORICAL EFFECTS IN A SUCCESSIONAL ROCKY INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY

    Eric L. Berlow

  • BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES

    Ulrich Brose;Lara Cushing;Eric L. Berlow;Tomas Jonsson

  • Predator diversity and identity drive interaction strength and trophic cascades in a food web.

    Sonja B. Otto;Eric L. Berlow;Nathan E. Rank;John Smiley

  • SHRUB EXPANSION IN MONTANE MEADOWS: THE INTERACTION OF LOCAL-SCALE DISTURBANCE AND SITE ARIDITY

    Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Carla M. D'Antonio;Sally A. Reynolds

Frequent Co-Authors

Neo D. Martinez
Neo D. Martinez Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams Vibrant Data Labs
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier
Sergio A. Navarrete
Sergio A. Navarrete Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Carla M. D'Antonio
Carla M. D'Antonio University of California, Santa Barbara
Jennifer A. Dunne
Jennifer A. Dunne Santa Fe Institute
Lucas Joppa
Lucas Joppa Microsoft (United States)
Owen L. Petchey
Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich
Bruce A. Menge
Bruce A. Menge Oregon State University

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