Dr Axel Rossberg

Institute:

CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

axel.rossberg@NoSpamcefas.co.uk

Expertise:

Food webs, biodiversity, modelling and macroecology

Axel Rossberg is author of “Food Webs and Biodiversity: Foundations, Models, Data” (Wiley 2013), lead advisor on food webs at Cefas, food-web expert-group lead at HBDSEG, and UK's expert on food webs at OSPAR. Research interests include food web indicators, flux models, BEF relations, size spectra, multispecies fisheries modelling and MSY, diets and trophic niche space. In MERP, he is leading Module 3 and contributing two models to the ensemble modelling study of Module 4.

Selected Publications

Nagelkerke, L. A. J. and Rossberg, A. G. (2014). Trophic niche-space imaging, using resource and consumer traits. Theoretical Ecology, 7(4), 423—434.

Rossberg, A. G. (2013). Food Webs and Biodiversity: Foundations, Models, Data. Wiley. ISBN 9-780470973-55-4.

Rossberg, A. G., Rogers, T., and McKane, A. J. (2013). Are there species smaller than 1mm? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280, 20131248.

Fung, T., Farnsworth, K. D., Shephard, S., Reid, D. G., and Rossberg, A. G. (2013). Why the size structure of marine communities can require decades to recover from fishing. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 484, 155—171.

Rossberg, A. G. (2012). A complete analytic theory for structure and dynamics of populations and communities spanning wide ranges in body size. Advances in Ecological Research, 46, 429—522.

Useful links

http://axel.rossberg.net