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Pavel Kratina is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

Their body of work spans various subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Global and Planetary Change

Main topics covered by their research include:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology

Kratina has published multiple papers that contribute to current ecological and environmental knowledge. Among their recent publications are:

  • "Extreme rainfall events alter the trophic structure in bromeliad tanks across the Neotropics," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Human pressure drives biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands," 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The evolution of competitive ability for essential resources," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Predation increases multiple components of microbial diversity in activated sludge communities," 2021, The ISME Journal
  • "A Metabolic Perspective of Stochastic Community Assembly," 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Gustavo Q. Romero
  • Victoria Kemp
  • J. Iwan Jones
  • Vinicius F. Farjalla
  • Dieison A. Moi

They have contributed several publications to well-known venues. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Pollution

Kratina's research encompasses a blend of field studies, ecological modeling, and environmental assessments, reflecting their ongoing engagement with multiple aspects of ecological sciences and environmental change.

Best Publications

  • Diet tracing in ecology: Method comparison and selection

    Jens M. Nielsen;Elizabeth L. Clare;Brian Hayden;Michael T. Brett

  • Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities

    Pavel Kratina;Hamish S. Greig;Patrick L. Thompson;Patrick L. Thompson;Ticiana S. A. Carvalho-Pereira;Ticiana S. A. Carvalho-Pereira

  • A bioenergetic framework for the temperature dependence of trophic interactions.

    Benjamin Gilbert;Tyler D. Tunney;Kevin S. McCann;John P. DeLong

  • Warming shifts top-down and bottom-up control of pond food web structure and function

    Jonathan B. Shurin;Jessica L. Clasen;Hamish S. Greig;Hamish S. Greig;Pavel Kratina;Pavel Kratina

  • Warming, eutrophication, and predator loss amplify subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

    Hamish S. Greig;Pavel Kratina;Patrick L. Thompson;Patrick L. Thompson;Wendy J. Palen

  • Functional responses modified by predator density

    Pavel Kratina;Matthijs Vos;Andrew Bateman;Bradley R. Anholt

  • The Body Size Dependence of Trophic Cascades

    John P. DeLong;Benjamin Gilbert;Jonathan B. Shurin;Van M. Savage

  • Stability and persistence of food webs with omnivory: Is there a general pattern?

    Pavel Kratina;Robin M. LeCraw;Travis Ingram;Travis Ingram;Bradley R. Anholt

  • The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting

    Frank Pennekamp;Alison C. Iles;Alison C. Iles;Joshua Garland;Georgina Brennan

  • Extreme rainfall events alter the trophic structure in bromeliad tanks across the Neotropics

    Gustavo Q Romero;Nicholas A C Marino;A Andrew M MacDonald;Régis Céréghino

  • Predator-induced reduction of freshwater carbon dioxide emissions

    Trisha B. Atwood;Edd Hammill;Hamish S. Greig;Pavel Kratina

  • Intraguild predation drives evolutionary niche shift in threespine stickleback.

    Travis Ingram;Richard Svanbäck;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Pavel Kratina

  • Human pressure drives biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands

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  • SPECIES DIVERSITY MODULATES PREDATION

    Pavel Kratina;Matthijs Vos;Bradley R. Anholt

  • Global predation pressure redistribution under future climate change

    Gustavo Q. Romero;Thiago Gonçalves-Souza;Pavel Kratina;Nicholas A. C. Marino

  • Dominant predators mediate the impact of habitat size on trophic structure in bromeliad invertebrate communities

    Jana S. Petermann;Vinicius F. Farjalla;Merlijn Jocque;Merlijn Jocque;Pavel Kratina

  • Interactive effects of warming and microplastics on metabolism but not feeding rates of a key freshwater detritivore

    Pavel Kratina;Tania J. Watts;Dannielle S. Green;Rebecca L. Kordas

  • Synchronous dynamics of zooplankton competitors prevail in temperate lake ecosystems

    David A. Vasseur;Jeremy W. Fox;Andrew Gonzalez;Rita Adrian

  • Land use alters trophic redundancy and resource flow through stream food webs.

    Elliott L. Price;Mirela Sertić Perić;Gustavo Q. Romero;Pavel Kratina

  • Temperature-mediated changes in zooplankton body size: large scale temporal and spatial analysis

    Lowri E. Evans;Lowri E. Evans;Andrew G. Hirst;Andrew G. Hirst;Pavel Kratina;Grégory Beaugrand

  • Ecosystem services provided by bromeliad plants: A systematic review.

    Geraldine Ladino;Fabiola Ospina-Bautista;Jaime Estévez Varón;Lucie Jerabkova

  • Constraints on the functional trait space of aquatic invertebrates in bromeliads

    Régis Céréghino;Valério D. Pillar;Diane S. Srivastava;Paula M. de Omena

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustavo Q. Romero
Gustavo Q. Romero State University of Campinas
Diane S. Srivastava
Diane S. Srivastava University of British Columbia
Jonathan B. Shurin
Jonathan B. Shurin University of California, San Diego
Bradley R. Anholt
Bradley R. Anholt University of Victoria
Benjamin Gilbert
Benjamin Gilbert University of Toronto
Vinicius F. Farjalla
Vinicius F. Farjalla Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Régis Céréghino
Régis Céréghino Paul Sabatier University
Bruno Corbara
Bruno Corbara University of Clermont Auvergne
Monika Winder
Monika Winder Stockholm University
Andrew G. Hirst
Andrew G. Hirst University of Liverpool

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