Human activities are the main current driver of global change. From hunter‐gatherers
through to Neolithic societies–and particularly in contemporary industrialised countries …

Aim Predators often have important roles in structuring ecosystems via their effects on each
other and on prey populations. However, these effects may be altered in the presence of …

Proposed links between biodiversity and ecosystem processes have generated intense
interest and controversy in recent years. With few exceptions, however, empirical studies …

Pervasive overharvesting of consumers and anthropogenic nutrient loading are changing
the strengths of top‐down and bottom‐up forces in ecosystems worldwide. Thus, identifying …

An important goal in ecology is developing general theory on how the species composition
of ecosystems is related to ecosystem properties and functions. Progress on this front is …

It is becoming increasingly clear that intraspecific evolutionary divergence influences the
properties of populations, communities and ecosystems. The different ecological impacts of …

Most ecosystems are recipients of allochthonous materials that enhance in situ productivity.
Recent theoretical and empirical studies suggest that low to moderate inputs can stabilize …

Animal movements are important drivers of nutrient redistribution that can affect primary
productivity and biodiversity across various spatial scales. Recent work indicates that …

The transport of resource subsidies by animals has been documented across a range of
species and ecosystems. Although many of these studies have shown that animal resource …

The self-organizing principles of markets that have emerged in human cultures over the past
10 000 years are inherently in conflict with the self-organizing principles of ecosystems that …