Habitat complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators (CRITTER) — Supplemental Statistics Report
This repository hosts the statistics report that is supplementing our peer-reviewed journal article by Aranbarri et al. (2025a) investigating the effect of habitat complexity on the feeding functional response of two freshwater invertebrate predators. Find the latest version of our supplemental statistical report as PDF on Zenodo. Find below information on related works and the location of the data and code.
This report is published under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. The underlying code is licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.
If you want to cite our report, please use on of the following options:
General citation:
Rall, B.C., Aranbarri, M., Flores, L., Guzmán, I. de, Larrañaga, A., & Reiss, J.(2025): Habitat complexity reduces the feeding strength of freshwater predators (CRITTER) — Supplemental Statistics Report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14898819
Current version:
Rall, B.C., Aranbarri, M., Flores, L., de Guzmán, I., Larrañaga, A., and Reiss, J. (2025): Habitat complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators (CRITTER) — Supplemental Statistics Report (v1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17250079
Former versions:
Rall, B.C., Aranbarri, M., Flores, L., de Guzmán, I., Larrañaga, A., and Reiss, J. (2025): Habitat complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators (CRITTER) — Supplemental Statistics Report (v0.1.2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15348995
Rall, B.C., Aranbarri, M., Flores, L., de Guzmán, I., Larrañaga, A., and Reiss, J. (2025): Complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators (CRITTER) - Supplemental Statistics Report (v0.1.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14907885
Rall, B.C., Aranbarri, M., Flores, L., de Guzmán, I., Larrañaga, A., and Reiss, J. (2025): Complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators (CRITTER) - Supplemental Statistics Report (v0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14898820
Please consider to also cite our main article:
Aranbarri, M., Flores, L., de Guzmán, I., Larranaga, A., Rall, B.C., and Reiss, J. (2025): Habitat complexity reduces feeding strength of freshwater predators. Ecology and Evolution, e72258. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72258
- Björn C. Rall
(0000-0002-3191-8389)
- bjoern.rall@uni-konstanz.de
- Aquatic Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
- Mireia Aranbarri
(0009-0001-3506-0914)
- mireia.arambarri@ehu.eus
- Laboratory of Stream Ecology, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU PO Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- Lorea Flores
(0000-0002-0082-4072)
- lflorescompains@gmail.com
- Laboratory of Stream Ecology, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU PO Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- Ioar de Guzmán
(0000-0001-8894-8477)
- mirenioar.deguzman@ehu.eus
- Laboratory of Stream Ecology, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU PO Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- INRAE, UMR 1224, Ecologie Comportementale et Biologie des Populations de Poissons, Aquapôle, quartier Ibarron, 64310 Saint-Pée sur Nivelle, France
- Aitor Larrañaga
(0000-0002-0185-9154)
- aitor.larranagaa@ehu.eus
- Laboratory of Stream Ecology, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU PO Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- Julia Reiss
(0000-0002-3740-0046)
- julia.reiss@brunel.ac.uk
- Centre for Pollution Research and Policy, Brunel University of London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Article (Aranbarri et al., 2025a)
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Scientific Preprint Article (Aranbarri et al., 2025b)
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Supplemental Statistics Report on Zenodo (Rall et al., 2025b)
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R-Code on Zenodo (Rall et al., 2025a)
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Data on Zenodo (Flores et al., 2025)
We wrote our report in R Markdown (Allaire et al., 2025; Xie et al., 2018, 2020) and bookdown (Xie, 2016, 2025a). The R Markdown script imports the data and the required functions directly from our GitHub repositories CRITTERdata and CRITTERcode, respectively (Flores et al., 2025; Rall et al., 2025a). You will find an in-depth code description in the README of our CRITTERcode repository. You will find laboratory methods in our peer-reviewed journal article (Aranbarri et al., 2025a).
If you want to knit this report for yourself, you need to install:
bbmle(Bolker & R. Development Core Team, 2023)bookdown(Xie, 2025a)doParallel(Microsoft & Weston, 2022a)dplyr(Wickham et al., 2023)emdbook(Bolker, 2025)foreach(Microsoft & Weston, 2022b)frair(Pritchard et al., 2017; Pritchard, 2025)here(Müller, 2025)kableExtra(Zhu, 2024)knitr(Xie, 2025b)lhs(Carnell, 2024)MASS(Ripley & Venables, 2025)odin(FitzJohn, 2025)png(Urbanek, 2022)purrr(Wickham & Henry, 2025)RCurl(CRAN Team & Temple Lang, 2025)sessioninfo(Csárdi et al., 2025)supportR(Lyon, 2024)tinytex(Xie & Posit Software, PBC, 2025)
We used TinyTex to create the pdf report. Please follow their installation guidelines on their homepage. You can, of course, use another LaTeX distribution, but we only tested if the R Markdown script works using TinyTex.
- Mireia Aranbarri was funded by the Investigo Programm funded by the NextGenerationEU initiative.
- Lorea Flores was funded by a grant by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.
- Ioar de Guzmán was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (TED2021-129966B-C31) and by the University of the Basque Country (POSTUPV24/47).
- Julia Reiss was supported by a Royal Society of London Starting Grant.
- Björn C. Rall was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the DynaSym research unit (FOR 5726).
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