Global warming, habitat loss and overexploitation of limited resources are leading to
alarming biodiversity declines. Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that display …

Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity
threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and …

The provisioning of ecosystem services to society is increasingly under pressure from global
change. Changing disturbance regimes are of particular concern in this context due to their …

Anthropogenic activities are increasingly affecting ecosystems across the globe. Meanwhile,
empirical and theoretical evidence suggest that natural systems can exhibit abrupt collapses …

Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re‐establishing 'indigenous reference'communities.
One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create …

Predicting environmental change and its impacts on ecosystem goods and services at local
to global scales remains a significant challenge for the international scientific community …

Biodiversity is monophyletic: life started with a single species. Biodiversity evolved,
becoming more and more complex, by a process that went through many patterns of …

Humanity has triggered the sixth mass extinction episode since the beginning of the
Phanerozoic. The complexity of this extinction crisis is centred on the intersection of two …

The evening session in ecological complexity at the last Joint Meeting of the International
Association for Ecology (INTECOL) and the Ecological Society of America (ESA) held in …

Improving our ability to manage complex, rapidly changing social-ecological systems is one
of the defining challenges of the 21st century. This is particularly crucial if large-scale …