Louis-Felix Bersier: publications
(* : corresponding author)
- Mouquet N., Devictor V., Meynard C.N., Munoz F., Bersier L.-F., Chave J.,
Couteron P., Dalecky A., Fontaine C., Gravel D., Hardy O.J.,
Jabot F., Lavergne S., Leibold M., Mouillot D.,
Münkemüller T., Pavoine S., Prinzing A., Rodrigues
A.S.L., Rohr R.P., Thébault E., Thuiller W. Phylogenetic
ecology, advances and perspectives. Biological Reviews, in
press.
- Naisbit R.E., Kehrli P., Rohr R.P., Bersier L.-F.* (2011) Phylogenetic signal in
predator-prey body-size relationships. Ecology,
92: 2183-2189. Reprint
- Haaland C., Bersier L.-F.
(2011) What can sown wildflower strips contribute to butterfly
conservation?: an example from a Swiss lowland agricultural
landscape. Jounal
of Insect Conservation, 15: 301-309. Reprint
- Haaland C., Naisbit R.E., Bersier
L.-F. (2011) Sown wildflower strips for insect
conservation: a review. Insect Conservation and Diversity,
4: 60-80. Reprint
- Rohr R.P., Scherer H., Kehrli P., Mazza C., Bersier L.-F. (2010)
Modeling food webs: Exploring unexplained structure using latent
traits. American
Naturalist, 176: 170-177. Reprint
- Clerc T., Davison A.C., Bersier
L.-F. (2009) Stochastic modelling of prey depletion
processes. Journal
of Theoretical Biology, 259: 523-532. Reprint
- Banašek-Richter C., Bersier
L.-F.*, Cattin M.-F., Merz Y., Baltensperger R.,
Gabriel J.-P., de Ruiter P., Tavares-Cromar A., Ulanowicz R.E.,
Winemiller K, Naisbit, R.E. (2009) Complexity in quantitative
food webs. Ecology,
90: 1470-1477. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F.* and
Kehrli P. (2008) The signature of phylogenetic constraints on
food-web structure. Ecological Complexity, 5: 132-139. Reprint
- Roulin A. and Bersier L.-F.
(2007) Nestling barn owls beg more intensely in the presence of
their mother than their father.
Animal Behaviour, 74: 1099-1106.
- Bersier L.-F. (2007) A
history of the study of ecological networks. In Biological
Networks. Képès, F. (ed). Complex Systems and
Interdisciplinary Science, Vol. 3; World Scientific, pp.
365-421. Reprint
- Tschanz B., Bersier L.-F.
and Bacher, S. (2007) Functional responses: a question of
alternative prey and predator density. Ecology, 88: 1300-1308. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F., Cattin,
M.-F., Banašek-Richter C., Baltensperger R., and Gabriel J.-P.
(2006) Reply to Martinez and Cushing. In Ecological networks:
Linking Structure and Dynamics. Pascual M., and Dunne J.A.
(eds). Oxford University Press, pp. 91-92.
- Brose U., Jonsson T. Berlow E.L., Warren P., Banašek-Richter
C., Bersier L.F.,
Blanchard J.L., Brey T., Carpenter S.R., Cattin Blandenier M.F.,
Cushing L. Dawah H.A., Dell T., Edwards F., Harper-Smith S.,
Jacob U., Ledger M.E., Martinez N.D., Memmott J., Mintenbeck K.,
Pinnegar J.K., Rall B.C., Rayner T.S., Reuman D.C., Ruess L.,
Ulrich W., Williams R.J., Woodward G., and Cohen J.E. (2006)
Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs.
Ecology,
87: 2411–2417. Reprint
- Gabriel J.-P., Saucy F., and Bersier
L.-F* (2006) Carrying capacity, population equilibrium,
and environment's maximal load - Answer to Hui. Ecological
Modelling, 192: 321. Reprint
- Brose U., Cushing L., Berlow E.L., Jonsson T., Banasek-Richter
C., Bersier L.F.,
Blanchard J.L., Brey T., Carpenter S.R., Cattin Blandenier M.F.,
Cohen J.E., Dawah H.A., Dell T., Edwards F., Harper-Smith S.,
Jacob U., Knapp R.A., Ledger M.E., Memmott J., Mintenbeck K.,
Pinnegar J.K., Rall B.C., Rayner T., Ruess L., Ulrich W., Warren
P., Williams R.J., Woodward G., Yodzis P. and Martinez N.D.
(2005) Body sizes of consumers and their resources. Ecology,
86: 2545. Reprint
- Banašek-Richter C., Bersier
L.-F. and Cattin M.-F. (2005) Structure of food webs:
from scale invariance to scale dependence, and back again? In
Dynamic Food web – Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem
development and environmental change. de Ruiter, P., Wolters, V.
and Moore, J.C. (eds). Academic Press, pp. 48-55.
- Dell A.I., Kokkoris G.D., Banašek-Richter C., Bersier L.-F., Dunne J.A.,
Kondoh M., Romanuk T. and Martinez N.D. (2005) How do complex
food webs persist in nature? In Dynamic Food web – Multispecies
assemblages, ecosystem development and environmental change. de
Ruiter, P., Wolters, V. and Moore, J.C. (eds), pp. 425-436.
Academic Press, pp. 425-436.
- Gabriel J.-P., Saucy F., and Bersier
L.-F.* (2005) Paradoxes in the logistic equation? Ecological
Modelling, 185: 147-151. Reprint
- Schenk, D., Bersier, L.-F.
and Bacher, S. (2005) An experimental test of the nature of
predation: neither prey- nor ratio-dependent. Journal of
Animal Ecology, 75: 86-91. Reprint
- Bize P., Roulin A., Tella J.L., Bersier L.-F. and Richner H. (2004) Additive
effect of ectoparasite laod manipulations on current and future
reproduction in the long-lived Alpine swift. Journal of Animal Ecology,
73: 1080-1088. Reprint
- Cattin M.-F., Bersier L.-F.*,
Banašek-Richter C., Baltensperger R. and Gabriel, J.-P. (2004)
Phylogenetic constraints and adaptation explain food web
structure. Nature,
427: 835-839. Reprint
- Hofer U., Bersier L.-F.*
and Borcard D. (2004)
Relating niche and geographic overlap at the community level. Oikos,
106: 366-376. Reprint
- Banašek-Richter C., Cattin, M.-F. and Bersier L.-F.* (2004)
Sampling effects and the robustness of quantitative and
qualitative descriptors of food webs. Journal of Theoretical Biology,
226: 23-32. Reprint
- Sugihara G., Bersier L.-F.*,
Southwood, T.R.E., Pimm, S.L., and May, R.M. (2003) Predicted
correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of
niche similarities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of
the USA, 100: 5246-5251. Reprint
- Bize P., Roulin A., Bersier
L.-F., Pflüger D. and Richner H. (2003) Parasitism
and developmental plasticity in Alpine swift nestlings. Journal of
Animal Ecology, 72: 633-639. Reprint
- Cattin, M.-F., Blandenier, G., Banašek-Richter C. and Bersier L.-F.* (2003)
Effects of mowing on the spider (Araneae) community as
management practice in wet meadows. Biological Conservation,
113: 179-188. Reprint
- Hofer, U., Baur, H. and Bersier,
L.-F. (2003) Ecology of three sympatric species of the
genus Chamaeleo (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) in a tropical upland
forest in Cameroon. Journal of Herpetology, 37: 203-207. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F.*,
Banašek-Richter C. and Cattin M.-F. (2002) Quantitative
descriptors of food web matrices. Ecology, 83: 2394-2407. Reprint
- Chattopadhyay J., Sarkar R., Fritzsche-Hoballah M.E., Turlings
T.C.J. and Bersier L.-F.*
(2001) Parasitoids may determine plant fitness - a mathematical
model based on experimental data. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 212: 295-302.
Reprint
- Descombes, E., Boulat, O., Bersier
L.-F. and Fellay G. (2001) Difference in the
homocystein lowering effect of folic acid in patients with and
without occlusive vascular disease. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation,
16:585-589. Reprint
- Hofer U. and Bersier L.-F.
(2001) Herpetofaunal diversity and abundance in tropical upland
forests of Cameroon and Panama.
Biotropica, 33: 142-152. Reprint
- Hofer U., Bersier L.-F.
and Borcard D. (2000) Ecotones and gradient as determinants of
herpetofaunal community structure in the primary forest of Mount
Kupe. Journal
of Tropical Ecology, 16: 517-533. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F.*, Dixon,
P. and Sugihara, G. (1999) Scale invariant or scale dependent
behavior of the link density property in food webs: A matter of
sampling effort? American Naturalist, 153: 676-682. Reprint
- Hofer U., Bersier L.-F.
and Borcard D. (1999) Spatial organization of a herpetaufauna on
an elevational gradient revealed by null model tests. Ecology,
80: 976-988. Reprint
- Segundo J.P., Sugihara G., Dixon P., Stiber M. and Bersier L.-F. (1998) The
spike trains of inhibited pacemaker neurons seen through the
magnifying glass of nonlinear analyses. Neuroscience, 87: 741-766. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F.* and
Sugihara G. (1997) Scaling regions for food web properties. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 94:
1247-1251. Reprint
- Sugihara G., Bersier L.-F.*
and Schoenly K. (1997) The effect of taxonomic and trophic
aggregation on food web properties. Oecologia, 112: 272-284. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F.* and
Sugihara, G. (1997) Species abundance patterns: the problem of
testing stochastic models. Journal of Animal Ecology, 66:
769-774. Reprint
- Carney H.J., Havens, K.E. and Bersier, L.-F. (1997) Nonlinear scale dependence
and spatiotemporal variability in planktonic food webs. Oikos,
79: 230-240. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F.* and
Meyer D.R. (1995) Relationships between bird assemblages,
vegetation structure, and floristic composition of mosaic
patches in riparian forests. Revue d'Ecologie (la Terre et la Vie),
50: 15-33. Reprint
- Bersier L.-F.* and
Meyer D.R. (1994) Bird assemblages in mosaic forests: the
relative importance of vegetation structure and floristic
composition along the successional gradient. Acta Oecologica,
15: 561-576. Reprint